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The thurber carnival perennial classics thurber, james on. The pieces here, most of which first appeared in the new yorker, include my life and hard times in its entirety, fables for our time in its entirety, the secret life of walter mitty, the catbird seat, and many other thurber classics. The preface, written by thurber himself is a great start to the collection. The thurber carnival, by james thurber mpl book trailer.
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Thurber had a magic to his writing, especially in his essays on his boyhood in ohio, introducing bizarre and possibly mentally ill characters so gently and persuasively that you had to love them. Jan 30, 2014 james thurber was born in 1894 at columbus, ohio, where, as he once said, so many awful things happened to him. Thurber house about james thurber literary center and. Thurber was one of the great commentators on the vagaries of everyday life.
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