The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty And Other Pieces

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Penguin Modern Classics
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fables, American
ISBN : 0141182911

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces by James Thurber Pdf

James Thurber is universally admired for his hilarious sense of humour, off-beat imagination and unique take on the world around him. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, in which a young man's fantasies have a much more powerful hold on him than reality, is probably his best-known prose work, but this selection also contains wonderfully entertaining essays, poetry and cartoons gathered from all of Thurber's collections. Poking fun at 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 essential reading for everyone who loves to laugh.

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443435611

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The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty by James Thurber Pdf

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 : The Creative Company
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1583415866

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber Pdf

A henpecked husband copes with the frustrations of his dull life by imagining he is a fearless airplane pilot, a brilliant doctor, and other dashing figures.

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156623447

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My World - and Welcome to it by James Thurber Pdf

A book of humor and satire covers topics from baseball to Macbeth.

Author : Leon Carr,Joe Manchester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Musicals
ISBN : LCCN:75203193

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by Leon Carr,Joe Manchester Pdf

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Husbands
ISBN : 0860847888

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Secret Lives of Walter Mitty and of James Thurber by James Thurber Pdf

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547188735

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My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Life and Hard Times" 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 : Yassin Adnan
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780815655398

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Hot Maroc by Yassin Adnan Pdf

With an infectious blend of humor, satire, and biting social commentary, Yassin Adnan gives readers a portrait of contemporary Morocco—and the city of Marrakech—told through the eyes of the hapless Rahhal Laâouina, a.k.a. the Squirrel. Painfully shy, not that bright, and not all that popular, Rahhal somehow imagines himself a hero. With a useless degree in ancient Arabic poetry, he finds his calling in the online world, where he discovers email, YouTube, Facebook, and the news site Hot Maroc. Enamored of the internet and the thrill of anonymity it allows, Rahhal opens the Atlas Cubs Cyber Café, where patrons mingle virtually with politicians, journalists, hackers, and trolls. However, Rahhal soon finds himself mired in the dark side of the online world—one of corruption, scandal, and deception. Longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2017, Hot Maroc is a vital portrait of the challenges Moroccans, young and old, face today. Where press freedoms are tightly controlled by government authorities, where the police spy on, intimidate, and detain citizens with impunity, and where adherence to traditional cultural icons both anchors and stifles creative production, the online world provides an alternative for the young and voiceless. In this revolutionary novel that recalls Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Dave Eggers’s The Circle, Adnan fixes his lens on young Rahhal and his contemporaries as they navigate the perilous and changing landscape of the real and virtual worlds they inhabit.

Author : Henry Eliot
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 2282 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780241441619

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The Penguin Modern Classics Book by Henry Eliot Pdf

The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig. It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book. Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.

Author : John Chu
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466838116

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The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere by John Chu Pdf

In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential flood depending on the intensity of the lie). This makes life difficult for Matt as he maneuvers the marriage question with his lover and how best to "come out" to his traditional Chinese parents. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Robert Beardwood,Blair Mahoney
Publisher : Insight Publications
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781921411281

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Whose Reality? by Robert Beardwood,Blair Mahoney Pdf

Insight Contexts provides students with a variety of writing tips and strategies for developing excellent Context responses.

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN : UOM:39015038154806

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Writings and Drawings by James Thurber Pdf

Gathers previously uncollected cartoons and humorous stories.

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152018956

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Many Moons by James Thurber Pdf

Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for the moon.

Author : Kirsty Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429922350

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The Stuff of Dreams by Kirsty Hall Pdf

Many texts about anxiety are based either in the philosophical tradition or within the medical model under the guise of discussions about post-traumatic stress disorder. In the case of fantasy, however, the usual sources of discussion are in literary and cultural criticism. Bringing the two together offers the scope for a book with an original theme. The balance between clinical ideas, philosophical ideas and literary sources is aimed at keeping both potential audiences interested. Clinicians may find the idea of thinking 'dialectically' helpful with their patients. Although this approach is implied in both Freud and Lacan, this is the first book to put dialectics 'centre stage' in terms of understanding the patient's discourse. As far as general readers are concerned, most texts on fantasy do not 'home in' on the contribution of anxiety to the constantly changing content of fantasy.This book offers a new approach to the problem of anxiety. It suggests that our fantasies (both public and private) offer the key to understanding our anxieties and vice versa.

Author : William L. Randall,Elizabeth McKim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190294465

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Reading Our Lives by William L. Randall,Elizabeth McKim Pdf

Against the background of Socrates' insight that the unexamined life is not worth living, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old investigates the often overlooked inside dimensions of aging. Despite popular portrayals of mid- and later life as entailing inevitable decline, this book looks at aging as, potentially, a process of poiesis: a creative endeavor of fashioning meaning from the ever-accumulating texts - memories and reflections-that constitute our inner worlds. At its center is the conviction that although we are constantly reading our lives to some degree anyway, doing so in a mindful matter is critical to our development in the second half of life. Drawing on research in numerous disciplines affected by the so-called narrative turn - including cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and the psychology of aging - authors Randall and McKim articulate a vision of aging that promises to accommodate such time-honored concepts as wisdom and spirituality: one that understands aging as a matter not merely of getting old but of consciously growing old.