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- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from "The Odyssey through modern literature- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom

The Day the World Ended	p. 1
Nice, Nice, Very Nice	p. 2
Folly	p. 4
A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils	p. 5
Letter from a Pre-Med	p. 8
Bug Fights	p. 13
The Illustrious Hoenikkers	p. 18
Newt's Thing with Zinka	p. 19
Vice-President in Charge of Volcanoes	p. 20
Secret Agent X-9	p. 21
Protein	p. 24
End of the World Delight	p. 25
The Jumping-Off Place	p. 27
When Automobiles Had Cut-Glass Vases	p. 30
Merry Christmas	p. 32
Back to Kindergarten	p. 35
The Girl Pool	p. 37
The Most Valuable Commodity on Earth	p. 39
No More Mud	p. 42
Ice-Nine	p. 44
The Marines March on	p. 47
Member of the Yellow Press	p. 48
The Last Batch of Brownies	p. 50
What a Wampeter is	p. 52
The Main Thing About Dr. Hoenikker	p. 53
What God is	p. 54
Men from Mars	p. 55
Mayonnaise	p. 58
Gone, But Not Forgotten	p. 60
Only Sleeping	p. 61
Another Breed	p. 63
Dynamite Money	p. 64
An Ungrateful Man	p. 66
Vin-Dit	p. 69
Hobby Shop	p. 73
Meow	p. 77
A Modern Major General	p. 79
Barracuda Capital of the World	p. 81
Fata Morgana	p. 82
House of Hope and Mercy	p. 84
A Karass Built for Two	p. 86
Bicycles for Afghanistan	p. 88
The Demonstrator	p. 92
Communist Sympathizers	p. 96
Why Americans are Hated	p. 98
The Bokononist Method for Handling Caesar	p. 99
Dynamic Tension	p. 101
Just Like Saint Augustine	p. 103
A Fish Pitched Up by an Angry Sea	p. 104
A Nice Midget	p. 109
O.K., Mom	p. 110
No Pain	p. 114
The President of Fabri-Tek	p. 116
Communists, Nazis, Royalists, Parachutists, and Draft Dodgers	p. 118
Never Index Your Own Book	p. 119
A Self-Supporting Squirrel Cage	p. 123
The Queasy Dream	p. 125
Tyranny With A Difference	p. 127
Fasten Your Seat Belts	p. 129
An Underprivileged Nation	p. 132
What A Corporal Was Worth	p. 134
Why Hazel Wasn't Scared	p. 136
Reverent And Free	p. 137
Peace And Plenty	p. 139
A Good Time To Come To San Lorenzo	p. 141
The Strongest Thing There Is	p. 144
Hy-U-O-Ook-Kuh!	p. 147
Hoon-Yera Mora-Toorz	p. 149
A Big Mosaic	p. 150
Tutored By Bokonon	p. 153
The Happiness Of Being An American	p. 154
The Pissant Hilton	p. 156
Black Death	p. 159
Cat's Cradle	p. 163
Give My Regards To Albert Scweitzer	p. 166
Julian Castle Agrees With Newt That Everything Is Meaningless	p. 168
Aspirin And Boko-Maru	p. 170
Ring Of Steel	p. 172
Why McCabe's Soul Grew Coarse	p. 174
The Waterfall Strainers	p. 176
A White Bride For The Son Of A Pullman Porter	p. 180
Zah-Mah-Ki-Bo	p. 183
Dr. Schlichter Von Koenigswald Approaches The Break-Even Point	p. 185
Blackout	p. 187
A Pack Of Foma	p. 189
Two Little Jugs	p. 191
The Cut Of My Jib	p. 194
Why Frank Couldn't Be President	p. 197
Duffle	p. 199
Only One Catch	p. 201
Mona	p. 203
On The Poet's Celebration Of His First Boko-Maru	p. 205
How I Almost Lost My Mona	p. 206
The Highest Mountain	p. 210
I See The Hook	p. 212
Bell, Book, And Chicken In A Hatbox	p. 213
The Stinking Christian	p. 216
Last Rites	p. 219
Dyot Meet Mat	p. 220
Down The Oubliette Goes Frank	p. 223
Like My Predecessors, I Outlaw Bokonon	p. 225
Enemies Of Freedom	p. 227
A Medical Opinion On The Effects Of A Writers' Strike	p. 230
Sulfathiazole	p. 232
Pain-Killer	p. 235
What Bokononists Say When They Commit Suicide	p. 237
Feast Your Eyes!	p. 239
Frank Tells Us What To Do	p. 240
Frank Defends Himself	p. 242
The Fourteenth Book	p. 244
Time Out	p. 245
Newt's Mother's Reticule	p. 248
History	p. 250
When I Felt The Bullet Enter My Heart	p. 252
As It Happened	p. 257
The Grand Ah-Whoom	p. 259
Sanctuary	p. 261
The Iron Maiden And The Oubliette	p. 263
Mona Thanks Me	p. 267
To Whom It May Concern	p. 270
I Am Slow To Answer	p. 273
The Swiss Family Robinson	p. 275
Of Mice And Men	p. 276
Frank's Ant Farm	p. 279
The Tasmanians	p. 282
Soft Pipes, Play On	p. 284
The End	p. 286
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