The return of Hyman Kaplan

by Leo Rosten

Paperback, 1968

Status

Available

Call number

F ROS

Collection

Publication

Harmonsworth, Middlesex : Penguin

Description

Twenty years after his first collection of tales about that Don Quixote of adult education, Leo Rosten brought Hyman Kaplan back for a second term on the bottom rung in the beginner's grade at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults.

User reviews

LibraryThing member tripleblessings
Pseudonym of Leo Rosten.
From Toronto, hardcover with paper jacket. More funny adventures of Mr. Kaplan and the other immigrants who study English in Mr. Parkhill's night class. Sometimes politically incorrect in its stereotypes of Eastern European immigrants. The humour as the students struggle
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with the inconsistencies of English spelling and grammar is spot-on.
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Awards

National Book Award (Finalist — Fiction — 1960)

Language

Physical description

177 p.; 20 cm

Local notes

Donated by the Stone Family, June 2021
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