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Welcome to the Monkey House
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- Welcome to the Monkey House is also an album by The Dandy Warhols.
Welcome to the Monkey House is an assortment of short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut, first published in 1968. The stories range from war-time epics to futuristic thrillers, given with satire and Vonnegut's unique edge. The stories are often inter-twined and convey the same underlying messages on human nature and present society.
The collection wholly includes all but one of the twelve stories in his previous short story collection Canary in a Cathouse. Other short stories Vonnegut wrote during the same time period are collected in a second volume, Bagombo Snuff Box.
The collection includes:
- Where I Live
- Harrison Bergeron
- Who Am I This Time?
- Welcome to the Monkey House
- Long Walk to Forever
- The Foster Portfolio
- Miss Temptation
- All the King's Horses
- Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog
- New Dictionary
- Next Door
- More Stately Mansions
- The Hyannis Port Story
- D.P.
- Report on the Barnhouse Effect
- The Euphio Question
- Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son
- Deer in the Works
- The Lie
- Unready to Wear
- The Kid Nobody Could Handle
- The Manned Missiles
- EPICAC
- Adam
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
In 1991, a short-lived television series entitled Welcome to the Monkey House aired on the United States Showtime channel. It was based on Vonnegut's stories and hosted by Vonnegut himself. Details can be found under Welcome to the Monkey House at the Internet Movie Database.
The book inspired an album by the Dandy Warhols, also entitled Welcome to the Monkey House.
| Novels | 1950s: Player Piano (1952) • The Sirens of Titan (1959) 1960s: Mother Night (1961) • Cat's Cradle (1963) • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine (1965) • Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade (1969) 1970s: Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye, Blue Monday (1973) • Slapstick or Lonesome No More (1976) • Jailbird (1979) 1980s: Deadeye Dick (1982) • Galápagos (1985) • Bluebeard (1987) 1990s: Hocus Pocus (1990) • Timequake (1996) |
| Short story collections | Canary in a Cathouse (1961) • Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) • Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) |
| Collected essays | Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) • Palm Sunday, An Autobiographical Collage (1981) • Fates Worse than Death, An Autobiographical Collage (1990) • God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (2001) • A Man Without a Country (2005) |
| Plays | Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970) • Between Time and Timbuktu, or Prometheus Five: A Space Fantasy (1972) • Make Up Your Mind (1993) • Miss Temptation (1993) • L'Histoire du Soldat (1993) |
| Adaptations | |
| Stage | Welcome to the Monkey House (1970, 1974) • Sirens of Titan (1974) • Cat's Cradle (1976) • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1979) • Breakfast of Champions (1984) • Requiem (Stone, Time, and Elements: A Humanist Requiem) (1988) • Slaughterhouse-Five (1996) |
| Film | Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) • Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) • Next Door (1975) • Slapstick of Another Kind (1982) • Mother Night (1996) • Breakfast of Champions (1999) |
| Television | Displaced Person (1958, 1985) • EPICAC (1974, 1992) • Who Am I This Time? (1982) • All the King's Horses (1991) • Next Door (1991) • The Euphio Question (1991) • Fortitude (1992) • The Foster Portfolio (1992) • More Stately Mansions (1992) • Harrison Bergeron (1995) |