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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : 0679600892
A collection of zany stories and drawings by one of America's greatest satirists.
Author : JAMES THURBER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : James Thurber
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547192299
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Thurber Carnival" by James Thurber. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Drama
ISBN : 057361668X
"...these sketches of humorous scenes from American life include some of Thurber's most celebrated and insightful satires: The Night the Bed Fell, Gentlemen Shoppers, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and the unforgettable File and Forget in which Thurber recounts his famous correspondence with various publishers who ship him books which he doesn't want and never ordered. A perfect evening of comedy." -- Publisher's description.
Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156623447
A book of humor and satire covers topics from baseball to Macbeth.
Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443435611
Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered forty-year-old man, drives into Connecticut with his wife for their weekly shopping trip. Tired of his drab, schedule-driven life, Walter escapes into five elaborate daydreams, and finally becomes the hero he always hoped to be. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” was originally published in a 1939 issue of The New Yorker. It is considered to be an American classic, and author James Thurber’s masterpiece. It has been adapted for film, first in 1947, and most recently for the 2013 feature film starring Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short stories collection to build your digital library.
Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Parables
ISBN : 1888683457
Author : Harrison Kinney,Rosemary A. Thurber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780743226219
Though he died more than forty years ago, James Thurber remains one of America's greatest and most enduring humorists, and his books -- for both adults and children -- remain as popular as ever. In this comprehensive collection of his letters -- the majority of which have never before been published -- we find unsuspected insights into his life and career. His prodigious body of work -- fables, drawings, comic essays, reportage, short stories, including his famous "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" -- all define Thurber's special and prolific genius. Like most good humorists, he was prone to exaggeration, embellishment, and good-natured self-deprecation. In his letters we find startling revelations about who he really was, and why the prism through which he viewed the world could often be both painfully and delightfully distorting. For the first time, Thurber's daughter Rosemary has allowed the publication of many of the extremely personal letters he wrote early in his life to the women he was -- usually hopelessly -- in love with, as well as the affectionate and hilarious letters that he wrote to her. In addition, Harrison Kinney, noted Thurber biographer, has located a number of Thurber letters never before published. The Thurber Letters traces Thurber's progress from lovesick college boy to code clerk with the State Department in Paris and reporter for the Columbus Dispatch, through his marriages and love affairs, his special relationship with his daughter, his illustrious and tumultuous years with The New Yorker, his longstanding relationship with E. B. White, his close friendship with Peter De Vries, and his tragic last days. Included in the book are Thurber drawings never before published. His candid comments in these personal letters, whether lighthearted or melancholy, comprise an entertaining, captivating, informal biography -- pure, wonderful Thurber.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060143002
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 and breadth of his talent. The pieces here, almost all of which first appeared in The New Yorker, include selections from such beloved classics as My World and Welcome to It, The Owl in the Attic, The Seal in the Bathroom, and 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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:569474
Author : Herbert R. Kohl
Publisher : Teachers & Writers
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 091592417X
Herbert Kohl shows how to explore improvisation with young people, and to use dialogue and monologue to help students begin to write their own plays, and adapt plays and stories for performance. He provides wonderful descriptions of adapting Alice in Wonderland, Hamlet, Antigone, and other great works.
Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0878054103
In Conversations with James Thurber this remarkable man who has been called America¿s twentieth-century Mark Twain and who was one of the great talkers of his time expresses his opinions on just about everything and recounts stories and anecdotes about his life which provided the basis for much of his humor writing. These entertaining interviews, conducted by Arthur Miller, Harvey Breit, George Plimpton, Arthur Gelb, and others, span twenty-two years, from 1939--1961. In them Thurber recalls his youth in Columbus, Ohio, his struggles as a student at Ohio State University, and his days of literary and journalistic apprenticeship in Europe as a code clerk and newspaperman who had to recreate entire stories from a few words of coded copy provided by the wire service. He tells too of his early days in New York City when he joined the staff of The New Yorker, of the origins of his drawings, of the pleasures that word games and mental puzzles gave him, and of his increasing blindness and its effect on his work and his perception of the world. As a man who like to express his opinions and to have an audience, Thurber enjoyed interviews and rarely refused to grant them. With the interview format he became so skilled that he perfected the interview-monologue into a Thurberesque art form, the oral equivalent of the autobiographical essay that he refined in his prose.
Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598533125
James Thurber, whimsical fantasist and deadpan chronicler of everyday absurdities, brought American humor into the 20th century. His comic persona, a modern citydweller whose zaniest flights of free association are tinged with anxiety, remains hilarious, subtly disturbing, and instantly recognizable. Here, in over 1000 pages, editor Garrison Keillor presents the best and most extensive collection ever assembled. Over 100 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. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066352721
In the enchanting collection 'Further Fables for Our Time' by James Grover Thurber, readers are treated to a series of witty and insightful tales featuring animal protagonists. Through his signature illustrations and clever storytelling, Thurber delves into various subjects such as marriage and McCarthyism, offering a unique perspective with a touch of darkness and a lot of humor. With tales like 'The Turtle Who Conquered Time' and 'The Lion and the Lizard', Thurber's 'Further Fables for Our Time' is a delightful exploration of human follies and triumphs through the voices of the animal kingdom, blending entertainment with thought-provoking messages.
Author : Neil A. Grauer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803270569
One of the great American humorists of this century, James Thurber is still read and cherished by many readers more than thirty years after his death. He is most famous for the hilarious, often bittersweet stories that he published in the 1930s and 1940s in the New Yorker. He was also a brilliant cartoonist whose unique drawings were an eagerly awaited feature in Harold Ross’s New Yorker and in Thurber’s books. This biography is a book much in the spirit of Thurber himself. Readable, anecdotal, and often delightfully funny, Remember Laughter will be cherished by all fans of Thurber. Yet Neil A. Grauer by no means sentimentalizes Thurber. He addresses serious, and often disturbing, features of Thurber’s life while highlighting Thurber’s courage, inexhaustible humor, and unique literary and artistic talents. The result is a biography that both celebrates Thurber’s genius and shrewdly appraises his qualities as a man.