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the life and work of James Thurber

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the life and work of James Thurber

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Publisher
New Century Books
Language
English
Pages
380

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Subjects
American Authors, American Humorists, Authors, American, Biography, Cartoonists, Humorists, American
People
James Thurber (1894-1961)
Places
United States
Times
20th century

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The Man Who Was Walter Mitty: The Life and Work of James Thurber
September 2001, New Century Books
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The Man Who Was Walter Mitty: The Life and Work of James Thurber
September 2001, New Century Books
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The man who was Walter Mitty: the life and work of James Thurber
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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.

Published in
The Woodlands, Tx
Series
New century exceptional lives series
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.5209, B
Library of Congress
PS3539.H94 Z67 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
380 p. ;
Number of pages
380

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6802791M
ISBN 10
0738840831
LCCN
00192351
OCLC/WorldCat
47917403
Goodreads
1451327

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