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Collected Fables by James Thurber
Category: Fiction
Published to coincide with the 125th anniversary of James Thurber's birth, this treasury combines, for the first time, Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time with Thurber's unpublished preface and ten previously uncollected or unpublished stories. James Thurber has been called "one of the ...Show more
Fables of Our Time by James Thurber
Category: Poetry
"These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us how human we really are, are completely uproarious."-- "Saturday Review of Literature." Imperishably illustrated by Thurber himself."These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us how human we really are, are completely upro ...Show more
Is Sex Necessary? - Or Why You Feel the Way You Do by James Thurber; E. B. White
Category: Non-Fiction
"If this book isn't a minor classic--and one uses the term 'minor' only because it is so gorgeously funny and not ponderous enough to be a major--well, one doesn't know what book is. Let's compromise and just call it a classic." --Will Cuppy, New York Herald TribuneThe first book of prose published by e ...Show more
James Thurber: Writings and Drawings by James Thurber
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America
James Thurber, whimsical fantasist and deadpan chronicler of everyday absurdities, brought American humor into the 20th century. His comic persona, a modern citydweller whose zaniest flights of free association are tinged with anxiety, remains hilarious, subtly disturbing, and instantly recognizable. He ...Show more
James Thurbers Secret Lives Hb by James Thurber
Category: Fiction | Series: WISPS S.
Thurber, writer, journalist and cartoonist, is widely recognised as America's greatest humourist since Mark Twain. This work focuses on illustrated short pieces. It includes the works of one of the "New Yorker's" most famous writers, and features his best-loved character, Walter Mitty.
My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that defined his famous sketches and writings. In" My Life and Hard times," first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful c ...Show more
People Have More Fun Than Anybody - A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings by James Thurber by James Thurber; Michael J. Rosen (Editor)
Category: Humour
This volume of previously uncollected work comprises prose pieces and drawings by the only cartoonist who could claim to draw "abstract things like despair, disillusion, despondency, sorrow, lapse of memory, exile...." Seventy-five black-and-white line drawings throughout. Edited and with an Introductio ...Show more
THE THIRTEEN CLOCKS by THURBER JAMES
Category: Fiction
One of the most prolific literary figures of the 20th century, James Thurber wrote countless stories, poems, satires, and fables, and he created thousands of drawings. The 13 Clocks mixes puns and nonsense in a story complete with a princess, prince, and happy ending--put together in incomparable Thurbe ...Show more
THURBER CARNIVAL by THURBER JAMES
Category: Humour | Series: Perennial Classics Ser.
The hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', collected in this classic anthology.This collection brings together the best of James Thurber's brilliantly funny, eccentric and anarchic writings. It includes his most famous work, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, in w ...Show more