Books written by James Thurber
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Thurber on Crime
A collection of Thurber's ruminations on villainy features stories, articles, and essays that include "Mr. Prebble Gets Rid of His Wife," "Izzy and Moe," "A Glimpse of the Flatpaws," "Mr. Monroe Holds the Fort," and "The Man Who Knew Too ...
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The Years with Ross
From iconic American humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the magazine’s unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross “Extremely entertaining. . . . life at The New ...
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The Night the Ghost Got in
The brief appearance of a ghost late at night begins a series of comic misunderstandings during which the narrator's mother throws a shoe through a neighbor's window and his grandfather shoots a policeman.
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The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty: Short Story
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Alarms and Diversions
Another collection of Thurberiana, unique in that it contains a peppering of the author's favorites, also an introduction to his "serious comedy." Among the 32 stories lurk joyosities such as...
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The Years with Ross
But no one could have written about this irascible, eccentric genius more affectionately or more critically than James Thurber -- an American icon in his own right -- whose portrait of Ross captures not only a complex literary giant but a ...
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My World - and Welcome to it
A book of humor and satire covers topics from baseball to Macbeth
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Is Sex Necessary?: Or Why You Feel the Way You Do
The first book of prose published by either James Thurber or E. B. White, Is Sex Necessary? combines the humor and genius of both authors to examine those great mysteries of life -- romance, love, and marriage.
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My Life and Hard Times
In My Life and Hard times, first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful chaos and frustrations of family, boyhood, youth odd dogs, recalcitrant machinery, and the foibles of human nature.
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The Middle-aged Man on the Flying Trapeze: A Collection of Short Pieces, Mainly Humorous But with a Few Kind of...
The Middle-aged Man on the Flying Trapeze: A Collection of Short Pieces, Mainly Humorous But with a Few Kind of...
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The Middle-aged Man on the Flying Trapeze: A Collection of Short Pieces, Mainly Humorous But with a Few Kind of...
The Middle-aged Man on the Flying Trapeze: A Collection of Short Pieces, Mainly Humorous But with a Few Kind of...
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The Tiger who Would be King
The tiger challenges Leo the lion for the title "king of the beasts," inciting war throughout the jungle.
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Selected Letters of James Thurber
Selected Letters of James Thurber
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Secret Lives of Walter Mitty and of James Thurber
Also included in this edition are Simont's renderings of Thurber's tongue-in-cheek autobiographical essay "The Secret Life of James Thurber", which first appeared in The New Yorker in 1943 and is not widely available.
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Lanterns & Lances
Contains 24 pieces in which the well-known humorist is largely concerned with the survival of our English language, currently being subjected to much erroneous use.
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The Wonderful O: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Conversations with James Thurber
... Thurber sustains a blood clot 4 October and dies 4 November . He is buried in Columbus , Ohio . Credos and Curios is published posthumously , by Harper & Row . Selected Letters of James Thurber , edited by Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks ...