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Book

The Thurber carnival

Call Number

  • FICTION THUR (CEN, OSH)

Edition

1st Perennial Classics ed.

Publication Information

New York : Perennial Classics, 1999.

Physical Description

xvii, 425 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Summary

A collection of essays and illustrations by the American humorist, including "The Seal in the Bedroom" and "My Life and Hard Times."

Notes

Originally published in hardcover: Harper & Brothers, 1945.

"Includes The secret life of Walter Mitty"--Cover.

Contents

  • Preface: My Fifty Years with James Thurber xv
  • I Stories Not Collected Before in Book Form
  • II from My World and Welcome to It
  • III from Let Your Mind Alone!
  • IV from The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze
  • V My Life and Hard Times, complete
  • VI from Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated
  • VII from The Owl in the Attic
  • VIII from The Seal in the Bedroom
  • IX from Men, Women and Dogs
  • The Thurber Carnival, 1945 423.

Subjects

Added Authors

James Thurber