Writings and drawings
Main Author: | Thurber, James, 1894-1961. |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Library of America,
1996.
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Series: |
Library of America ;
90 |
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Physical Description: |
p. cm. |
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ISBN: |
1883011221 (alk. paper) |
Author Notes: |
Of his two great talents, Thurber preferred to think of himself primarily as a writer, illustrating his own books. He published "fables" in the style of Aesop (see Vol. 2) and La Fontaine (see Vol. 2)---usually with a "barbed tip of contemporary significance"---children's books, several plays (two Broadway hits, one successful musical revue), and endless satires and parodies in short stories or full-length works. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," included in My World---and Welcome to It (1942), is probably his best-known story and continues to be frequently anthologized. T. S. Eliot described Thurber's work as "a form of humor which is also a way of saying something serious." (Bowker Author Biography) |