{"product_id":"9780307700926","title":"The Best of Archy and Mehitabel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA selection of the best of the hilarious free-verse poems by the irreverent cockroach poet Archy and his alley-cat pal Mehitabel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon Marquis’s famous fictional insect appeared in his newspaper columns from 1916 into the 1930s, and he has delighted generations of readers ever since. A poet in a former life, Archy was reincarnated as a bug who expresses himself by diving headfirst onto a typewriter. His sidekick Mehitabel is a streetwise feline who claims to have been Cleopatra in a previous life. As E. B. White wrote in his now-classic introduction, the Archy poems “contain cosmic reverberations along with high comedy” and have “the jewel-like perfection of poetry.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdorned with George Herriman’s whimsical illustrations and including White’s introduction, our Pocket Poets selection—the only hardcover \u003ci\u003eArchy and Mehitabel \u003c\/i\u003ein print—is a beautiful volume, and perfectly sized for its tiny hero.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012043587824,"sku":"9780307700926","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307700926_p0.jpg?v=1763673224","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307700926","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}