LIFE WITH FATHER

Life With Father is a collection of short stories by the American author and cartoonist Clarence Day (1874-1935), published just after his death in 1936.

Day wrote humorously about his family and life. The stories of his father were first printed in the New Yorker magazine. They portray a rambunctious, overburdened Wall Street broker who demands that everything from his family should be just so. The more he rails against his staff, his cook, his wife, his horse, salesmen, holidays, his children and the inability of the world to live up to his impossible standards, the more comical and lovable he becomes to his own family who love him despite it all. It is a picture of New York upper-middle-class family life in the 1890s.

In 1939, the book was turned into a play. The Broadway production ran for more than seven years to become the longest-running non-musical play on Broadway, a record that it still holds. The play was adapted into a 1947 feature film and a television series.

This is the Readers Digest version, published in 1993. It is illustrated by Mick Ellison.

Burgundy leatherette boards with brilliant gold and green trim. Beautiful thick creamy paper, 196 pages.

It has not been read, or even opened. It is in pristine condition with no marks of any kind in it or on it.

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