Without Feathers

{{Short description|Book by Woody Allen}} {{About|the book by Woody Allen|the album by The Stills|Without Feathers (album)|the song by Blonde Redhead|Blonde Redhead (album)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book |  | name = Without Feathers | title_orig = | translator = | image = Without-feathers.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Woody Allen | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Random House | pub_date = 12 May 1975 | english_pub_date = | media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback) | pages = 210 pp (hardcover edition) & 224 pp (paperback edition) | isbn = 978-0-394-49743-3 | isbn_note = (hardcover edition) | dewey= 818/.5/407 | congress= PS3551.L44 W5 | oclc= 1217497 }} '''''Without Feathers''''' is a 1975 collection of humorous essays and two one-act plays, ''Death'' and ''God'', by Woody Allen. It is one of Allen's best-known books, spending four months on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller List.

==Title meaning== The title ''Without Feathers'' is a reference to Emily Dickinson's poem "'Hope' is the thing with feathers", reflecting Allen's neurotic sense of hopelessness. The poem is mentioned in one of the stories.<ref>In "Selections from the Allen Notebooks", 9.</ref>

==Contents== # Selections from The Allen Notebooks # Examining Psychic Phenomena # A Guide to Some of the Lesser Ballets # The Scrolls # Lovborg's Women Considered # The Whore of Mensa <ref>''The New Yorker'', Dec. 16, 1974, pp.37-8</ref> # Death (A Play) # The Early Essays # A Brief Yet Helpful Guide to Civil Disobedience # Match Wits With Inspector Ford # The Irish Genius # God (A Play) # Fabulous Tales and Mythical Beasts # But Soft. Real Soft. # If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists # No Kaddish for Weinstein # Fine Times: An Oral Memoir # Slang Origins

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Category:1975 books Category:Comedy books Category:Short story collections by Woody Allen Category:Jewish comedy and humor Category:English-language books Category:Random House books