The Thurber Carnival
$29.16
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
11 April 2014
Summary
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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141395975 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141395974 |
| Author: | James Thurber |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 11 April 2014 |
| Weight: | 314g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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One of the absolutely essential books of our time
One of the absolutely essential books of our time * Saturday Review of Literature *
One of the great humorists * Sunday Times *
About The Author
James Thurber
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 at the American Embassy in Paris from 1918 to 1920, and then turned to journalism. From 1927 onwards he was on the staff of The New Yorker, and first published much of his work in it. He died in New York in 1961, and is today recognised as one of America’s greatest twentieth-century humourists.
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