Background
Thurber, James Grover was born on December 8, 1894 in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
(Collects stories and pieces from Thurber's earlier collec...)
Collects stories and pieces from Thurber's earlier collections, together with a new preface and six stories not previously published in book form, including "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and "The Catbird Seat."
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( These twenty-three humorous stories and essays and more...)
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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( First published in 1949, Thurber Country remains a ben...)
First published in 1949, Thurber Country remains a benchmark of satirical writing. Now, in this Simon & Schuster Classic Edition, is the original book, with a new introduction by Lillian Ross. The fact that James Thurber wrote this collection of pieces is, of course, a publisher's blurb in itself. It therefore is necessary simply to give the reader some factual idea of what sort of pieces they are. There are 26 of them. Most (including "File and Forget," a correspondence with his publishers which is not recommended to people who have a tendency to get bad hiccoughs from too much laughing) have already appeared in The New Yorker. Seven pieces have appeared in The Bermudian and have therefore never been published in this country. You will find Thurber Country a place not difficult to enter, but hard to leave.
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(Dust jacket notes: "'The noblest study of mankind is Man,...)
Dust jacket notes: "'The noblest study of mankind is Man, says Man,' says Thurber. But anyway he (Thurber, that is) here continues the study, fooling no one by putting it in the form of fables. People who already know everything there is to know about people shouldn't bother reading this book. Others need it badly."
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(A collection of pieces and drawings about human beings an...)
A collection of pieces and drawings about human beings and less alarming creatures. James Thurber (1984-1961) was an American author, cartoonist amd celebrated wit, one of the most, if not the most, popular humorist of his time. 222 pages. 4.25 x 7.2 inches. Avon Books, New York, 1948.
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(Now in paperback Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on...)
Now in paperback Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn’t go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was always cold. His hands were as cold as his smile and almost as cold as his heart. He wore gloves when he was asleep, and he wore gloves when he was awake, which made it difficult for him to pick up pins or coins or the kernels of nuts, or to tear the wings from nightingales. So begins James Thurber's sublimely revamped fairy tale, The 13 Clocks, in which a wicked Duke who imagines he has killed time, and the Duke’s beautiful niece, for whom time seems to have run out, both meet their match, courtesy of an enterprising and very handsome prince in disguise. Readers young and old will take pleasure in this tale of love forestalled but ultimately fulfilled, admiring its upstanding hero (“who yearned to find in a far land the maiden of his dreams, singing as he went…and possibly slaying a dragon here and there”) and unapologetic villain (“We all have flaws,” the Duke said. “Mine is being wicked”), while wondering at the enigmatic Golux, the mysterious stranger whose unpredictable interventions speed the story to its necessarily happy end.
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(Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, wh...)
Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn’t go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was always cold. His hands were as cold as his smile, and almost as cold as his heart. He wore gloves when he was asleep, and he wore gloves when he was awake, which made it difficult for him to pick up pins or coins or the kernels of nuts, or to tear the wings from nightingales. So begins James Thurber’s sublimely revamped fairy tale, The 13 Clocks, in which a wicked Duke who imagines he has killed time, and the Duke’s beautiful niece, for whom time seems to have run out, both meet their match, courtesy of an enterprising and very handsome prince in disguise. Readers young and old will take pleasure in this tale of love forestalled but ultimately fulfilled, admiring its upstanding hero (”He yearned to find in a far land the princess of his dreams, singing as he went, and possibly slaying a dragon here and there”) and unapologetic villain (”We all have flaws,” the Duke said. “Mine is being wicked”), while wondering at the enigmatic Golux, the mysterious stranger whose unpredictable interventions speed the story to its necessarily happy end.
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(The wicked, one-eyed duke of Coffin Castle lives in his c...)
The wicked, one-eyed duke of Coffin Castle lives in his cold fortress along with his beautiful, warm niece Saralinda. There are thirteen clocks in the castle that stopped marking time at the same moment. The duke hates time; indeed, he believes he has killed it. The only things he loves are his jewels and, apparently, his niece. There have been many suitors for Saralinda, but all failed to pass the terrible tests the duke set for them. A prince, Zorn of Zorna, disguised as a minstrel, comes to seek Saralinda's hand.
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(This is the hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of...)
This is 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 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. "One of the absolutely essential books of our time". (Saturday Review of Literature). "One of the great humorists". (Sunday Times).
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(Harold Ross was an American journalist and founder of the...)
Harold Ross was an American journalist and founder of the New Yorker magazine. He was at the helm of America's most literary magazine for more than half a century. Harold Ross introduced the country to a host of exciting talent: Robert Benchley, Alexander Woolcut. Ogden Nash, Peter Arno, and many more. He was a complex literary giant.
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(The Thurber Collection deals with pieces on the authors f...)
The Thurber Collection deals with pieces on the authors family, friends, teachers, and colleagues in Columbus, Ohio, in the good old days of carriages and tranquillity. Most of the stories first appeared in The New Yorker magazine.
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(The Years with Ross (Perennial Classics (Paperback)) The ...)
The Years with Ross (Perennial Classics (Paperback)) The Years with Ross (Perennial Classics (Paperback)) by Thurber, James ( Author ) Paperback Dec- 2000 Paperback Dec- 26- 2000
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( At the helm of America's most influential literary maga...)
At the helm of America's most influential literary magazine for more than half a century, Harold Ross introduced the country to a host of exciting talent, including Robert Benchley, Alexander Woolcott, Ogden Nash, Peter Arno, Charles Addams, and Dorothy Parker. But no one could have written about this irascible, eccentric genius more affectionately or more critically than James Thurber -- an American icon in his own right -- whose portrait of Ross captures not only a complex literary giant but a historic friendship and a glorious era as well. "If you get Ross down on paper," warned Wolcott Gibbs to Thurber," nobody will ever believe it." But readers of this unforgettable memoir will find that they do.
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(Dust jacket notes: "Here is a new Thurber book with stori...)
Dust jacket notes: "Here is a new Thurber book with stories and pictures, pictures and stories alternating in the liveliest and most surprising fashion. It represents some of the best work Thurber has ever done - all of it appearing now for the first time in book form. There is the story of the two wives who had both played Rosalind; and the story of Jennie, the non-homing dog. There is a piece called 'The Dewey Dewey Fog'; a study of the Lady on the Bookcase and how she got there; 'The Beast in the Dingle,' a 'literary pastiche' on Henry James; studies in pictures and text of prehistoric animals of the Middle West and the extinct animals of Bermuda. In the New Natural History Series one comes across The Hopeless Quandary, A Gloat near a Patch of I-Told-You-So, a Garble with an Utter in its claws. A full year's concentrated study of the fascinating country of daytime radio serials resulted in Thurber's writing a definitive study of Soapland."
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(Famed writer James Thurber's nostalgic recollections of "...)
Famed writer James Thurber's nostalgic recollections of "lovely and colorful people" from his Columbus, Ohio, hometown environs.
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(1992 B& N hardcover, full number line. ISBN: 978088029847...)
1992 B& N hardcover, full number line. ISBN: 9780880298476. James Thurber. 25 character sketches and observations about the human species.
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(Here, in the companion volume to "Fables For Our Time", a...)
Here, in the companion volume to "Fables For Our Time", are 47 fables including "The Wolf Who Went Places", "The Bragdowdy and the Busybody", "The Human Being and the Dinosaur" and "The Peacelike Mongoose".
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(Black and Littlejack are bad men. Littlejack has a map th...)
Black and Littlejack are bad men. Littlejack has a map that indicates the existence of a treasure on a far and lonely island. He needs a ship to get there. Black has a ship. So they team up and sail off on Black’s vessel, the Aeiu. “A weird uncanny name,” remarks Littlejack, “like a nightbird screaming.” Black explains that it’s all the vowels except for O. O he hates since his mother got wedged in a porthole. They couldn’t pull her in so they had to push her out. Black and Littlejack arrive at the port of the far and lonely island and demand the treasure. No one knows anything about it, so they have their henchmen ransack the place—to no avail. But Black has a better idea: he will take over the island and he will purge it of O. The vicissitudes visited on the islanders by Black and Littlejack, the harsh limits of a life sans O (where shoe is she and woe is we), and how finally with a little luck and lots of pluck the islanders shake off their tyrannical interlopers and discover the true treasure for themselves (Oh yes—and get back their O’s)—these are only some of the surprises that await readers of James Thurber’s timelessly zany fairy tale about two louts who try to lock up the language—and lose.
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(A Thurber Carnival (which echoes the title of his 1945 bo...)
A Thurber Carnival (which echoes the title of his 1945 book, The Thurber Carnival) is based on a selection of Thurber's stories and cartoon captions.
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(A collection of stories and illustrations. Includes photo...)
A collection of stories and illustrations. Includes photo gallery of people who were used as major character inspirations for this collection.
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Thurber, James Grover was born on December 8, 1894 in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
Student, Ohio State University. Doctor of Letters, Kenyon College, 1950. Doctor of Letters, Yale University, 1953.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Williams College, 1951.
Code clerk United States State Department, 1918-1920. Journalist, since 1920. Reporter Columbus Dispatch, 1920-1924.
With Chicago Tribune, Paris, 1924-1925. Member staff New York Evening Post, 1925.
( At the helm of America's most influential literary maga...)
(Collects stories and pieces from Thurber's earlier collec...)
(Here, in the companion volume to "Fables For Our Time", a...)
(Now in paperback Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on...)
(Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, wh...)
(The Years with Ross (Perennial Classics (Paperback)) The ...)
(The Thurber Collection deals with pieces on the authors f...)
(THE DUSK JACKET HAS SOME WEAR BUT IS STILL NICE AND CLEAN...)
(Dust jacket notes: "Here is a new Thurber book with stori...)
(A Thurber Carnival (which echoes the title of his 1945 bo...)
( These twenty-three humorous stories and essays and more...)
(This is the hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of...)
(Famed writer James Thurber's nostalgic recollections of "...)
(The wicked, one-eyed duke of Coffin Castle lives in his c...)
(25 pieces of the work of James Thurber, many of which wer...)
(A collection of pieces and drawings about human beings an...)
( First published in 1949, Thurber Country remains a ben...)
(Dust jacket notes: "'The noblest study of mankind is Man,...)
(Harold Ross was an American journalist and founder of the...)
(Humor & Wit, Comedy, Carnival, American Literature, Liter...)
(A book full of Thurber cartoons and short stories and com...)
(A collection of stories and illustrations. Includes photo...)
(A new collection of pieces about people.)
(1992 B& N hardcover, full number line. ISBN: 978088029847...)
(Lanterns & Lances by Thurber, James. 8vo.)
(Black and Littlejack are bad men. Littlejack has a map th...)
(Hardcover in dust jacket.)
(Paperback Reprinted 1980. 180 p. 8.12 x5.25x0.44 HUMOR CO...)
(Illustrated by Thurber. This was published posthumously, ...)
(Book by James thurber)
(hardcover book.)
(FICTION. A collection of humor and satire along with Thur...)
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