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The Thurber Carnival (Paperback)
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The Thurber Carnival (Paperback)
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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List price R318
Loot Price R261
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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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