- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Classics; New edition edition (4 May 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141182911
- ISBN-13: 978-0141182919
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 238,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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James Thurber is universally admired for his hilarious sense of humour, off-beat imagination, and unique take on the world around him. THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, in which a young man's fantasies have a much more powerful hold on him than reality, is probably his best-known prose work but this selection also contains wonderfully entertaining essays, poetry and cartoons gathered from all of Thurber's collections. Poking fun at his own weaknesses and those of other people (and dogs) - the English teacher who looked only at figures of speech, the Airedale who refused to include him in the family, the botany lecturer who despaired of him totally - James Thurber is essential reading for everyone who loves to laugh.
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The American cartoonist and author James Thurber (1894-1961) is considered one of America's greatest 20th-century humorists. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Thurber worked for the United States Department of State and then worked in France for the French edition of the 'Chicago Tribune'. He moved to New York City in 1926 and worked as a reporter for the Evening Post. In 1927 Thurber became staff writer and managing editor of 'The New Yorker'.
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The train was twenty minutes late, we found out when we bought our tickets, so we sat down on a bench in the little waiting room of the Cornwall Bridge station. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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The train was twenty minutes late, we found out when we bought our tickets, so we sat down on a bench in the little waiting room of the Cornwall Bridge station. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Thurber is a master of seeing the humor of the small battles of life, the neuroses we all recognize in ourselves but seldom admit to. His drawings are just off-kilter enough to let us see the ordinary world from a new perspective--the little irritations, the almost-lost daydreams, the small indignations. Spend an hour or two in his world and you'll return to yours refreshed.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Couldn't agree less. Read "One is a Wanderer" or "The Kerb in the Sky" or even "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and there's plenty of heartbreaking melancholy to counteract the whimsy and the dated attitudes. Gentle and subtle perhaps, but not always cosy. Thurber is a master.
9 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It is easy to see why Thurber is liked and easier still to see why he would be hated. I imagine his works would feel most at home in the pages of the Reader's Digest. Pure whimsy, reminding readers of an age that never really was, where everything was safe, and everyone was ever-so-slightly eccentric. Recommended if you like back yard tales of naughty dogs and henpecked husbands or slightly risque (if you are a doddering vicar) views on the 'battle of the sexes'. Thurber is just so unspeakably nice and cosy. Not recommended for anyone who likes an edge to their humour.
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