James thurber

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James Thurber Cartoon # 1

The hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', collected in this classic anthology. This collection brings together the best of James Thurber's brilliantly funny, eccentric and anarchic writings. It includes his most famous work, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, in which an ordinary man's fantasies have a more powerful hold on him than reality, as well as essays, poetry and cartoons gathered from all of Thurber's collections. Making fun of his own…

In 1925, when The New Yorker made its début, it was a humor magazine. Today, with so much comedy available for free on the Internet, a weekly humor …

When the Hounds of Spring by Algernon Charles Swinburne When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp …

The New Yorker - Saturday, April 29, 1939 - Issue # 741 - Vol. 15 - N° 11 - Cover by : James Thurber

Humorist. Born James Grover Thurber in Columbus, Ohio to Mary Agnes Fisher and Charles L. Thurber. A childhood accident cost him the sight in one eye and would eventually lead to vision problems throughout the rest of his life. He attended Ohio State University, though he did not take a degree. During the First World...

When I was around six or seven, I was home sick from school and in an effort to make me happy, my mother gave me a pencil, a stack of paper and a book of

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