Without Feathers

This article is about the book by Woody Allen. For the album by The Stills, see Without Feathers (album). For the song by Blonde Redhead, see Blonde Redhead (album).

Without Feathers is a 1975 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.

Without Feathers

First edition
Author	Woody Allen
Language	English
Publisher	Random House
Publication date	12 May 1975
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	210 pp (hardcover edition) & 224 pp (paperback edition)
ISBN	978-0-394-49743-3 (hardcover edition)
OCLC	1217497
Dewey Decimal	818/.5/407
LC Class	PS3551.L44 W5

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.^[1]

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 ^[2]
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