Welcome to the Monkey House
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| Welcome to the Monkey House | |
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 1st edition cover |
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| Author(s) | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Country |  USA |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Speculative fiction |
| Publisher | Delacorte Press |
| Publication date | 1968 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 352 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-385-33350-1 |
Welcome to the Monkey House is an assortment of short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut, first published in August 1968. The stories range from war-time epics to futuristic thrillers, given with satire and Vonnegut's unique edge. The stories are often inter-twined and convey the same underlying messages on human nature and present society.
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The collection [edit]
- "Where I Live" (Venture- Traveler’s World, October 1964)[1]
- "Harrison Bergeron" (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1961)
- "Who Am I This Time?" (The Saturday Evening Post, 16 December 1961)[1]
- "Welcome to the Monkey House" (Playboy, January 1968)
- "Long Walk to Forever" (Ladies Home Journal, August 1960)[1]
- "The Foster Portfolio" (Collier's Magazine, 8 September 1951)[1]
- "Miss Temptation" (The Saturday Evening Post, April 21, 1956)[1]
- "All the King's Horses" (Collier's Magazine, 10 Feb 1951)[1]
- "Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog" (Collier's Magazine, 14 March 1953)[1]
- "New Dictionary" (The New York Times, October 1966)[1]
- "Next Door" (Cosmopolitan, April 1955)[1]
- "More Stately Mansions" (Collier's Magazine, 22 December 1951)[1]
- "The Hyannis Port Story"
- "D.P." (Ladies Home Journal, August 1953)[1]
- "Report on the Barnhouse Effect" (Collier's Magazine, 11 February 1950)[2]
- "The Euphio Question" (Collier's Magazine, 12 May 1951)[2]
- "Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son" (Ladies Home Journal, July 1962)[1]
- "Deer in the Works" (Esquire, April 1955)[1]
- "The Lie" (The Saturday Evening Post 24 February 1962)[1]
- "Unready to Wear" (Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1953)
- "The Kid Nobody Could Handle" (The Saturday Evening Post, 24 September 1955)[1]
- "The Manned Missiles" (Cosmopolitan, July 1958)[1]
- "EPICAC" (Collier's Magazine, 25 November 1950)[2]
- "Adam" (Cosmopolitan, April 1954)[1]
- "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" (Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1954)[1]
Other media [edit]
In 1970 Christopher Sergel adapted the collection of stories into a play, also called Welcome to the Monkey House.[3] The play was staged at Carolina Actors Studio Theatre in 2010. In 1991, a short-lived television series entitled Monkey House aired on the United States Showtime channel. It was based on Vonnegut's stories and hosted by Vonnegut himself.[4]
Other short story collections [edit]
- This collection includes all but one of the twelve stories in Vonnegut's previous short story collection Canary in a Cathouse, released 1961.
- Other short stories Vonnegut wrote during the same time period are collected in a second anthology, Bagombo Snuff Box, released 1999.
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