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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."

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

References

1. "Books: Short Notices". Time. 15 April 1966. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008.
2. Driscoll, Majorie (22 May 1966). "A Different View of Extremism". p. C11. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012.(subscription required)

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