Without Feathers

Without Feathers (1975, ISBN 0-394-49743-0) is a 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.

Contents

 * 1) Selections from The Allen Notebooks
 * 2) Examining Psychic Phenomena
 * 3) A Guide to Some of the Lesser Ballets
 * 4) The Scrolls
 * 5) Lovborg's Women Considered
 * 6) The Whore of Mensa
 * 7) Death (A Play)
 * 8) The Early Essays
 * 9) A Brief Yet Helpful Guide to Civil Disobedience
 * 10) Match Wits With Inspector Ford
 * 11) The Irish Genius
 * 12) God (A Play)
 * 13) Fabulous Tales and Mythical Beasts
 * 14) But Soft. Real Soft.
 * 15) If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists
 * 16) No Kaddish for Weinstein
 * 17) Fine Times: An Oral Memoir
 * 18) Slang Origins