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James Thurber

My Life and Hard Times

Editura: Harper Perennial

Anul aparitiei: 1999

"Thurber is. . . a landmark in American humor. . . he is the funniest artist who ever lived." -- New Republic Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that defined his famous sketches and writings. In My Life and Hard times, first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful chaos and frustrations of family, boyhood, youth, odd dogs, recalcitrant machinery, and the foibles of human nature.

James Thurber

Fables for Our Time

Editura: Harper Perennial

Anul aparitiei: 1983

"These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us humans how we really are, are completely uproarious." --The Saturday Review of Literature James Thurber has been called "one of our great American institutions' (Stanley Walker) and "a magnificent satirist" ( Boston Transcript ). The New York Herald Tribune submits that he is "as blithe as Benchley...as savage as Swift...surprisingly wise and witty," while the Times of London, out of enthusiasm and a profound regard for truth, proclaims that "Thurber is Thurber." In Fables for Our Time , Thurber the Moralist is in the ascendancy. Here are a score or more lessons-in-prose dedicated to conventional sinners and proving--what you will. The fables are imperishably illustrated, and are supplemented by Mr. Thurber's own pictorial interpretations of famous poems in a wonderful and joyous assemblage.

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My World-And Welcome to It

Editura: Mariner Books

Anul aparitiei: 1969

The world of Thurber is splendidly sampled in these thirty stories, sketches, and articles that range from the wildest comedy to the serious business of murder. Animal courtship, maids, Macbeth, baseball, sailing, marriage-all fall within Thurber's scope. Drawings by the Author.

James Thurber, Rosemary Thurber

The Dog Department: James Thurber on Hounds, Scotties, and Talking Poodles

Editura: HarperCollins

Anul aparitiei: 2001

One of the greatest humorists of the 20th century, Thurber was also a major dog lover. Here are some of his finest illustrations and writings on his favorite canine subjects.130 illustrations.

James Thurber

The Thurber Carnival

Editura: Harper Perennial

Anul aparitiei: 1999

"An authentic American genius. . . . Mr. Thurber belongs in the great lines of American humorists that includes Mark Twain and Ring Lardner." --Philadelphia Inquirer James Thurber's unique ability to convey the vagaries of life in a funny, witty, and often satirical way earned him accolades as one of the finest humorists of the twentieth century. A bestseller upon its initial publication in 1945, The Thurber Carnival captures the depth of his talent and the breadth of his wit. The stories compiled here, almost all of which first appeared in The New Yorker, are from his uproarious and candid collection My World and Welcome to It --including the American classic "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"--as well as from The Owl in the Attic , The Seal in the Bathroom , Men, Women and Dogs . Thurber's take on life, society, and human nature is timeless and will continue to delight readers even as they recognize a bit of themselves in his brilliant sketches.

James Thurber

Many Moons

Editura: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Anul aparitiei: 1998

Princess Lenore, who's ill from eating too many raspberry tarts, believes that possessing the moon is the only thing that will cure her. However, neither the Royal Wizard, Royal Mathematician, nor the Lord High Chamberlain can get the moon her her. Only the clever Court Jester has the answer! Full color.

James Thurber

Many Moons

Editura: Harcourt Children's Books

Anul aparitiei: 1943

A wise tale of a little princess who wanted the moon and got it. "Grown-ups themselves will find the book hilariously funny. . . . The lovely, squiggly illustrations in color are exactly right."-- The New Yorker

James Thurber

The Wonderful O

Editura: New York Review of Books

Anul aparitiei: 2009

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 ...

James Thurber

Thurber: Writings and Drawings

Editura: Library of America

Anul aparitiei: 1996

A comprehensive collection of the American humorist's best work--including "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"--plus original drawings and a chronology of Thurber's own troubled life James Thurber, whimsical fantasist and deadpan chronicler of everyday absurdities, brought American humor into the 20th century. His comic persona, a modern city-dweller whose zaniest flights of free association are tinged with anxiety, remains hilarious, subtly disturbing, and instantly recognizable. Here, in over 1,000 pages, editor Garrison Keillor presents the best and most extensive collection ever assembled. Pieces include "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and "The Catbird Seat," the brilliantly satirical Fables for Our Time, the classic My Life and Hard Times, and the best of The Owl in the Attic, Let Your Mind Alone!, My World--And Welcome to It, and the other famous books. Plus 500 wonderful drawings, including The Seal in the Bedroom and celebrated sequences like "The Masculine Approach" and "The War Between Men and Women." Rounding out the volume is a selection from The Years with Ross, a memoir of the New Yorker publisher, and a number of wonderful early pieces never collected by Thurber. ...

Shirley Jackson, Edith Wharton, James Thurber

Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story

Editura: Symphony Space

Anul aparitiei: 2006

James Thurber

The 13 Clocks

Editura: New York Review of Books

Anul aparitiei: 2008

James Thurber

The Thirteen Clocks

Editura: Phoenix Audio

Anul aparitiei: 2006

One of the most prolific literary figures of the 20th century, James Thurber wrote countless stories, poems, satires, and fables, and he created thousands of drawings. The 13 Clocks mixes puns and nonsense in a story complete with a princess, prince, and happy ending--put together in incomparable Thurber style.

James Thurber (Author)

Is Sex Necessary?: Or Why You Feel the Way You Do

Editura: PERENNIAL

Anul aparitiei: 2004

"If this book isn't a minor classic--and one uses the term 'minor' only because it is so gorgeously funny and not ponderous enough to be a major--well, one doesn't know what book is. Let's compromise and just call it a classic." --Will Cuppy, New York Herald Tribune The first book of prose published by either James Thurber or E. B. White, Is Sex Necessary? combines the humor and genius of both authors to examine those great mysteries of life--romance, love, and marriage. A masterpiece of drollery, this 75th Anniversary Edition stands the test of time with its sidesplitting spoof of men, women, and psychologists; more than fifty funny illustrations by Thurber; and a foreword by John Updike.

James Thurber (Author)

Secret Lives of Walter Mitty and of James Thurber

Editura: COLLINS

Anul aparitiei: 2006

The WISP series (short for Wonderfully Illustrated Short Pieces) represents an ingenious marriag

James Thurber (Author)

The Years with Ross

Editura: HARPER COLLINS

Anul aparitiei: 2000

From iconic American humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the magazine's unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross"Extremely entertaining. . . . life at The New Yorker emerges as a lovely sort of pageant of lunacy, of practical jokes, of feuds and foibles. It is an affectionate picture of scamps playing their games around a man who, for all his brusqueness, loved them, took care of them, pampered and scolded them like an irascible mother hen." --New York TimesWith a foreword by Adam Gopnik and illustrations by James ThurberAt the helm of America's most influential literary magazine from 1925 to 1951, Harold Ross introduced the country to a host of exciting talent, including Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, 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, 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." ...

James Thurber (Author)

People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings by James Thurber

Editura: HARCOURT BRACE & CO

Anul aparitiei: 1995

"Vintage Thurber. . . small masterpieces of contemporary comment." -- Chicago Tribune "As funny, surprising, elegant, and subtly provocative as one would expect from that superb writer and draftsman." --Atlantic Monthly This delightful volume of previously uncollected work from beloved American humorist James Thurber includes nearly one hundred drawings and writings by the only cartoonist who could claim to draw "abstract things like despair, disillusion, despondency, sorrow, lapse of memory, exile." Edited and with an Introduction by Michael J. Rosen.

James Thurber (Author)

Many Moons

Editura: HARCOURT BRACE & CO

Anul aparitiei: 1973

A wise tale of a little princess who wanted the moon and got it. "Grown-ups themselves will find the book hilariously funny. . . . The lovely, squiggly illustrations in color are exactly right."-- The New Yorker

James Thurber (Author)

The White Deer

Editura: HARCOURT BRACE & CO

Anul aparitiei: 1968

Here is a Thurber world of enchanted deer and seven-headed dragons, of wizards and witches, of riddles and spells, of false love and true. It is the story of a beautiful princess, transformed from a deer, who assigns each of three princes a perilous labor to perform in order to win her hand. Drawings by the Author.

James Thurber (Author)

Many Moons

Editura: SAN VAL INC

Anul aparitiei: 1973

Thurber James

The Thurber Carnival

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2014

An antholgy that collects the writings of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', in which an ordinary man's fantasies have a more powerful hold on him than reality. It also includes his essays, poetry and cartoons. Page dim. 197 x 132 x 25 Series: Penguin Modern Classics Weight: 304 grams