# The Best of Archy and Mehitabel

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- Authors: [Don Marquis](https://www.bookquiver.com/don-marquis)
- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-4159-791-1
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2011-09-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

A poet in a former life, Archy has been reincarnated as a cockroach who types by diving headfirst onto a typewriter (and is famously unable to operate the shift key to produce capital letters); his side-kick Mehitabel is an alley cat who claims to have once been Cleopatra. Archy's poems irresistibly evoke Jazz Age New York - as seen from the alley; funny, wise, tender and tough, they represent the very best of American humour. Including George Herriman's whimsical illustrations and a classic introduction by novelist E. B. White, this Pocket Poet selection will make a beautiful volume, perfectly sized for its tiny hero.