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Welcome to the Monkey House


A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection


Subgenres:

  • Short Stories,
  • Satirical Fiction,
  • Science Fiction
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  • Short stories with sharp humor and nerve-jangling moments
  • Literary fiction that swings from sci-fi to satire in one collection
  • Stories originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Publisher Description

“[Kurt Vonnegut] strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending.”

Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.

Includes the following stories:

“Where I Live”

“Harrison Bergeron”

“Who Am I This Time?”

“Welcome to the Monkey House”

“Long Walk to Forever”

“The Foster Portfolio”

“Miss Temptation”

“All the King’s Horses”

“Tom Edison’s Shaggy Dog”

“New Dictionary”

“Next Door”

“More Stately Mansions”

“The Hyannis Port Story”

“D.P.”

“Report on the Barnhouse Effect”

“The Euphio Question”

“Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son”

“Deer in the Works”

“The Lie”

“Unready to Wear”

“The Kid Nobody Could Handle”

“The Manned Missiles”

“Epicac”

“Adam”

“Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”

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