These twenty-three humorous stories and essays and more than one hundred illustrations find James Thurber in absolutely top form. The book concludes with a sampling of articles Thurber wrote for the New Yorker’s “The Talk of the Town,” demonstrating his often overlooked skill as a reporter.
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James Thurber (1894—1961), one of the outstanding American humorists and cartoonists of the twentieth century, was born in Columbus, Ohio, and launched his professional writing career as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch in 1920. He began writing for The New Yorker in 1927 after his friend E. B. White got him a job at the magazine. Though hampered by failing eyesight, Thurber wrote nearly forty books, including collections of essays, short stories, fables, and children’s stories. He won a Tony Award for his popular Broadway play, A Thurber Carnival.
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More delights from Thurber's crazy world,
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The Thurber Carnival is really the must-have offering from the Thurber canon, but this book has some delights of its own. His assessment of the psychology behind his cartoons for The New Yorker is typical Thurber, the man at his sharpest. His gallery of wildlife sketches is as believable as it is ridiculous (his portrait of a gloat standing by a patch of I-told-you-sos being just one example).
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Decent but not his best,
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Let me start by saying that James Thurber is an exeptional writer and most of his stuff is well writen and very readable. However this book while it contains some very good works is not his best work ever. The thing that really drew me to this book was the cover and title and I am glad I read it and did enjoy it, but I have enjoyed some of his other works more.
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New York, Miss Lighter, Just Plain Bill, Charles Grantham, Amy Lighter, State Department, Miss Stein, United States, Miss Phillips, Bill Davidson, General Mills, Against the Storm, Colonel House, Hilltop House, Marian Forrester, Middle West, Fourteenth Street, Gene Tunney, Graham Steele, Henry James, Kerry Donovan, The Guiding Light, Third Avenue, Elaine Carrington, Girl Marries New!
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IT HAS BEEN established beyond doubt that the auditory organs of the Gryllidae (crickets) are situated in their front legs, but it will be the purpose of this article to suggest that, in the case of a certain group of crickets, this morphological oddity ma Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
daytime serials, house cricket, literary pilgrimage, daytime air, code clerks, radio serials Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Miss Lighter, Just Plain Bill, Charles Grantham, Amy Lighter, State Department, Miss Stein, United States, Miss Phillips, Bill Davidson, General Mills, Against the Storm, Colonel House, Hilltop House, Marian Forrester, Middle West, Fourteenth Street, Gene Tunney, Graham Steele, Henry James, Kerry Donovan, The Guiding Light, Third Avenue, Elaine Carrington, Girl Marries New!
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- The Lost Weekend (New York Classics) by Charles Jackson on page 213, and page 228
- Three Lives (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Gertrude Stein on page 334
- The Linden Tree: Play (Hereford Plays) by J. B. Priestley on page 194
- Just a mutt by Eldon Roark on page 115
- The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett on page 91
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- The Dog Department: James Thurber on Hounds, Scotties, and Talking Poodles by James Thurber on 4 pages
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal on page 253, and Back Matter
- America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Speaking of Soap Operas by Robert C. Allen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal on page 253, and Back Matter
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