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American Authors, American Humorists, Authors, American, Biography, Cartoonists, Humorists, AmericanPeople
James Thurber (1894-1961)Places
United StatesTimes
20th centuryShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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The Man Who Was Walter Mitty: The Life and Work of James Thurber
September 2001, New Century Books
Paperback
in English
0930751140 9780930751142
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The Man Who Was Walter Mitty: The Life and Work of James Thurber
September 2001, New Century Books
Hardcover
in English
0930751132 9780930751135
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The man who was Walter Mitty: the life and work of James Thurber
2000, New Century Books
in English
0738840831 9780738840833
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: One
The Fishers and the Thurbers
The Thurbers were as bland and undistinguished as the
Fishers were eccentric
Two
James Thurber: 1901-1918
" the restless imagination of a one-eyed sensitive boy of fourteen in Columbus, Ohio"
Three
James Thurber: 1918-1927
Golux, Todal, Nadaland Althea
Four
E.B. White and Harold Ross
In White and Ross, Thurber hadfound two men equal to his own genius, and he hadfound them at the tine their own genius was yet to be discovered.
Five
James Thurber: 1927-1932
"It takes two to make a neurosis "
Six
James Thurber: 1932-1937
"Is sex necessary, Mr. Thurber?"
Seven
James Thurber: 1937-1940
"Throw on the power lights! We're going through!"
The pounding of the cylinders increased:
Ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa
Eight
James Thurber: 1940-1945
Thurber's mental gyroscope,
which had held him steady in the universefor years,
now spun crazily out of control.
Nine
James Thurber: 1945-1953
" a great editor is afather, mother, teacher,
personal devil and personal god "
Ten
James Thurber: 1953-1961
a brilliant book about an eccentric editor,
or an eccentric book about a brilliant editor
Epilogue
James Thurber:
his work-and world-is leavened
with humor and tragedy.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-356) and index.
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