This Animal is Mischievous

First edition (UK)
(publ. Anthony Blond)

This Animal is Mischievous is a 1965 novel by David Benedictus. It is a satire about a British brother and sister who become involved in a battle between black activists and a fascist group. According to Time, the author's "discursive, Edwardian elegance of style is amusingly suited to satirizing upper-class pretentiousness, but his Negro characters are simply stereotypes and his twittering wittiness collapses at last into sentimentality."^[1]

The novel was also reviewed in the Los Angeles Times,^[2] Commonweal, The Spectator and other publications.

References

↑ "Books: Short Notices". Time. Apr 15, 1966. (subscription required (help)).
↑ Driscoll, Majorie (May 22, 1966). "A Different View of Extremism". p. C11. (subscription required)

David Benedictus

Novels	The Fourth of June (1962) You're a Big Boy Now (1963) This Animal is Mischievous (1965) The Rabbi's Wife (1977) Floating Down to Camelot (1985)

Winnie-the-Pooh	Return to the Hundred Acre Wood (2009)

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