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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 which an ordinary man''s fantasies have a more powerful hold on him than reality, as well as essays, poetry and cartoons gathered from all of Thurber''s collections. Making fun of 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 a true original, whose off-beat imagination shows us everyday life from a different angle.

James Thurber was born in 1894 at Columbus, Ohio, where, as he once said, so many awful things happened to him. After university (Ohio State) he worked

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The Thurber Carnival

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 30 January 2014
      ISBN-13 9780141395975
      978-0141395975
      ISBN-10 0141395974
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 which an ordinary man''s fantasies have a more powerful hold on him than reality, as well as essays, poetry and cartoons gathered from all of Thurber''s collections. Making fun of 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 a true original, whose off-beat imagination shows us everyday life from a different angle.

      James Thurber was born in 1894 at Columbus, Ohio, where, as he once said, so many awful things happened to him. After university (Ohio State) he worked

      Trade Review
      One of the absolutely essential books of our time * Saturday Review of Literature *
      One of the great humorists * Sunday Times *

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