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| thurber writings and drawings: Writings and Drawings James Thurber, 1996 Gathers previously uncollected cartoons and humorous stories. |
| thurber writings and drawings: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (LOA #90) James Thurber, 1996-10-01 A comprehensive collection of the American humorist’s best work—including “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”—plus original drawings and a chronology of Thurber’s own troubled life James Thurber, whimsical fantasist and deadpan chronicler of everyday absurdities, brought American humor into the 20th century. His comic persona, a modern city-dweller whose zaniest flights of free association are tinged with anxiety, remains hilarious, subtly disturbing, and instantly recognizable. Here, in over 1,000 pages, editor Garrison Keillor presents the best and most extensive collection ever assembled. Pieces include “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “The Catbird Seat,” the brilliantly satirical Fables for Our Time, the classic My Life and Hard Times, and the best of The Owl in the Attic, Let Your Mind Alone!, My World—And Welcome to It, and the other famous books. Plus 500 wonderful drawings, including The Seal in the Bedroom and celebrated sequences like “The Masculine Approach” and “The War Between Men and Women.” Rounding out the volume is a selection from The Years with Ross, a memoir of the New Yorker publisher, and a number of wonderful early pieces never collected by Thurber. Only a book of this scope can do justice to Thurber’s extraordinary career and to the many unexpected turns of his comic genius. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. |
| thurber writings and drawings: Writings and Drawings James Thurber, 1996 Gathers previously uncollected cartoons and humorous stories. |
| thurber writings and drawings: Selections from James Thurber's Writings & Drawings Over 30 Years James Thurber, 1959 |
| thurber writings and drawings: People Have More Fun Than Anybody James Thurber, 1994 Thurber continues to flourish with his suspicious, civilized, unsettling wit. Included are a dozen works of prose and more than 75 drawings by the only cartoonist who could claim to draw abstract things like despair, disillusion, despondency, sorrow, lapse of memory, exile . . . sometimes in a shape that might be called Man or Woman. |
| thurber writings and drawings: A Mile and a Half of Lines: The Art of James Thurber Michael J. Rosen, 2019 First book to assemble the range of Thurber's art, from decades of cartoons that established the New Yorker to illustrations for advertisements, children's books, and others' books. Includes previously unpublished art. |
| thurber writings and drawings: Vintage Thurber James Thurber, 1973 |
| thurber writings and drawings: My Life and Hard Times James Grover Thurber, 2021-12-24 This is the 1933 autobiography of James Thurber (1894 – 1961) who was, in his day, very well known and highly regarded. He was an American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist and playwright. He was best known for his cartoons and short stories. My Life and Hard Times is considered his greatest work as he retells the eccentric goings on of his family and the town beyond (Columbus, Ohio). Characters include the maid who lives in constant fear of being hypnotized; a grandfather who believes that the American Civil War is still going on; a mother who fears electricity is leaking all over the house and Muggs, The Dog That Bit People, an Airedale Terrier that had a penchant for biting certain people... including the author. |
| thurber writings and drawings: Collecting Himself Michael J. Rosen, 2011-05-31 “Thurber is. . . a landmark in American humor. . . he is the funniest artist who ever lived.” — New Republic James Thurber spent most of his career at the New Yorker magazine, drawing cartoons and writing essays and stories. Collecting Himself is a one-of-a-kind compilation of James Thurber's vintage writings, featuring previously unanthologized articles, essays, interviews, reviews, cartoons, parodies, as well as Thurber's reflections on his work in theater and at the New Yorker. An eclectic body of work that offers a glimpse into Thurber the man, the philosopher, and the critic. |
| thurber writings and drawings: Thurber's Dogs James Thurber, 1955 |
| thurber writings and drawings: Cream of Thurber, Skimmed from the Following Writings and Drawings of James Thurber My Life and Hard Times [and Others]. James Thurber, 1939 |
| thurber writings and drawings: Vintage Thurber James Thurber, 1983-01-01 |
| thurber writings and drawings: Further Fables for Our Time James Grover Thurber, 2022-08-10 A delightful collection of humorous tales laced with memorable satire. These modern fables reflect wonderfully on American life. It features stories like The Bat Who Got the Hell Out, The Scotty Who Knew Too Much, The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble, and The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing, where the readers might recognize a glimmer of themselves. |
| thurber writings and drawings: Remember Laughter Neil A. Grauer, 1995-01-01 One of the great American humorists of this century, James Thurber is still read and cherished by many readers more than thirty years after his death. He is most famous for the hilarious, often bittersweet stories that he published in the 1930s and 1940s in the New Yorker. He was also a brilliant cartoonist whose unique drawings were an eagerly awaited feature in Harold Ross’s New Yorker and in Thurber’s books. This biography is a book much in the spirit of Thurber himself. Readable, anecdotal, and often delightfully funny, Remember Laughter will be cherished by all fans of Thurber. Yet Neil A. Grauer by no means sentimentalizes Thurber. He addresses serious, and often disturbing, features of Thurber’s life while highlighting Thurber’s courage, inexhaustible humor, and unique literary and artistic talents. The result is a biography that both celebrates Thurber’s genius and shrewdly appraises his qualities as a man. |
| thurber writings and drawings: Many Moons James Thurber, 1998 Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for the moon. |
| thurber writings and drawings: Vintage Thurber James Thurber, 1963 |
| thurber writings and drawings: Vintage Thurber James Thurber, Helen Thurber, 1963 |
| thurber writings and drawings: James Thurber Harrison Kinney, 1995 A biography of the New Yorker author and cartoonist examines Thurber's work and life, including his relationships with women, his eventual blindness and his subtle sense of humor |
| thurber writings and drawings: Cream of Thurber James Thurber, 1939 |
| thurber writings and drawings: Vintage Thurber James Thurber, Helen Thurber, 1963 |
| thurber writings and drawings: Lanterns & Lances James Thurber, 1980 |
| thurber writings and drawings: My Heart Will Cross This Ocean Kadiatou Diallo, Craig Wolff, 2009-04-23 Descended from West African kings and healers, raised in the turbulence of Guinea in the 1960s, Kadiatou Diallo was married off at the age of thirteen and bore her first child when she was sixteen. Twenty-three years later, that child—a gentle, innocent young man named Amadou Diallo—was gunned down without cause on the streets of New York City. Now Kadi Diallo tells the astonishing, inspiring story of her life, her loss, and the defiant strength she has always found within. It was Kadi Diallo’s voice that captivated the public when she came to America to defend her slain son, and it is that same voice—candid, wise, and generous—that fills the pages of this extraordinary book. Kadi reaches back to her earliest memories of growing up in Guinea, the daughter of a strict man who was thwarted by the relics of the French colonial system. Raised in a world in which age-old religious and cultural rituals were disappearing before the onslaught of modernity, Kadi saw her own childhood end abruptly at age thirteen when her father literally gave her away in marriage. Kadi prayed for death, but instead she found herself plunged into a baffling new life—the life of a second wife in a strange household in a distant country, and soon afterwards the teenage mother of a sweet-natured son. Yet somehow, Kadi managed not only to survive but to flourish. Despite the rigid strictures of African-Islamic culture, she attended school and later started a successful business of her own. She eventually divorced and remarried and lived for eight years in Bangkok. Back in Guinea, she learned that her oldest child Amadou had been shot in New York City in a case of racial profiling. Kadi read with outrage the American newspaper description of her son as “an unarmed West African street vendor.” “Nothing,” she writes, “could be more distant from the truth.” Now, with great pride and searing love, Kadi Diallo finally tells the truth about herself and her son. My Heart Will Cross This Ocean is an extraordinary book—a girl’s story of desire and innocence, a wife’s story of defiance, a mother’s story of unbearable loss, and a woman’s story of unshakable strength and love. |
| thurber writings and drawings: Better to Have Loafed and Lost James Thurber, 2002 James Thurber was the most original, influential and, less we should forget, funniest American humorist of the last century. Writing and drawing cartoons for the New Yorker magazine from it's beginnings in the 1930s, he steadily shaped his own unique comic universe: a world governed by absurd logic where the trivial anxieties of everyday life slowly grind down its resigned citizens. Thurber's tales, alternately related in bemused deadpan and bewildered rage and are always excruciatingly funny and occasionally quietly disturbing too. This brand new selection, the first in over 50 years, reassembles his finest work for a new generation brought up on David Lynch and Jerry Seinfeld and features all his famous obsessions: the battle of the sexes, animals, travel, the delusional and certifiably insane. His 'casuals', as he liked to call his short pieces, drift between out and out fiction and surreal memoir. Spanning his whole career, this collection includes all his classic writings and cartoons, 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', 'The Catbird Seat', 'The Seal in the Bedroom', and half-forgotten gems that may be new even to fully qualified Thurber fans. |
| thurber writings and drawings: The Thurber Carnival , 1994 A collection of zany stories and drawings by one of America's greatest satirists. |
| thurber writings and drawings: Is Sex Necessary? James Thurber, E. B. White, 2004-11-09 The first book of prose published by either James Thurber or E. B. White, Is Sex Necessary? combines the humor and genius of both authors to examine those great mysteries of life -- romance, love, and marriage. A masterpiece of drollery, this 75th Anniversary Edition stands the test of time with its sidesplitting spoof of men, women, and psychologists; more than fifty funny illustrations by Thurber; and a new foreword by John Updike. |
| thurber writings and drawings: The Years with Ross James Thurber, 2000-12-26 At the helm of America's most influential literary magazine for more than half a century, Harold Ross introduced the country to a host of exciting talent, including Robert Benchley, Alexander Woolcott, Ogden Nash, Peter Arno, Charles Addams, and Dorothy Parker. But no one could have written about this irascible, eccentric genius more affectionately or more critically than James Thurber -- an American icon in his own right -- whose portrait of Ross captures not only a complex literary giant but a historic friendship and a glorious era as well. If you get Ross down on paper, warned Wolcott Gibbs to Thurber, nobody will ever believe it. But readers of this unforgettable memoir will find that they do. |
| thurber writings and drawings: 1-800-mice Matthew Thurber, 2011 This long-awaited rich graphic novel is a cross between Thomas Pynchon, Robert Altman and J.R.R. Tolkien and has earned Thurber raves from The Comics Journal, Vice and The Fader. 1-800 MICE is an anthropological study of the imaginary city of Volcano Park (where flying mouse couriers have replaced Federal Express), with a soap-opera fractured narrative and a cast of thousands. Over the course of the story readers meet: Peace Punk, a punker on the verge of bourgeois; Tom Chief: A beat cop with an identity crisis and Groomfiend, a daffy, if driven creature who directs the story. |
| thurber writings and drawings: Alarms and Diversions James Thurber, 2022-08-16 In James Thurber's Alarms and Diversions, readers are taken on a whimsical journey through a collection of his witty and humorous short stories, essays, and sketches. Thurber's distinctive literary style combines sharp satire with clever wordplay, making each piece a delightful exploration of human nature and society. Set in mid-20th century America, the book provides a unique glimpse into the cultural and social issues of the time, while maintaining a timeless quality that resonates with readers today. Fans of Thurber's iconic wit and charm will find Alarms and Diversions to be a treasure trove of entertainment that is both thought-provoking and light-hearted. It is a must-read for anyone looking to dive into the whimsical world of one of America's most beloved humorists. |
| thurber writings and drawings: The Middle Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze James Thurber, 2021-08-30 Step into the captivating world of James Thurber's 'The Middle Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze'. In this remarkable collection of 36 stories, Thurber's masterful sketches come to life, revealing a delightful blend of dark humor and profound observations. From the comically cold gentleman to the whimsical escapades of Mr. Preble, each story is a glimpse into Thurber's genius as both a writer and a doodler. |
| thurber writings and drawings: Onward and Upward in the Garden Katharine S. White, 2015-03-17 In 1925 Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazine’s first fiction editor, discovering and championing the work of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, James Thurber, Marianne Moore, and her husband-to-be, E. B. White, among others. After years of cultivating fiction, White set her sights on a new genre: garden writing. On March 1, 1958, The New Yorker ran a column entitled “Onward and Upward in the Garden,” a critical review of garden catalogs, in which White extolled the writings of “seedmen and nurserymen,” those unsung authors who produced her “favorite reading matter.” Thirteen more columns followed, exploring the history and literature of gardens, flower arranging, herbalists, and developments in gardening. Two years after her death in 1977, E. B. White collected and published the series, with a fond introduction. The result is this sharp-eyed appreciation of the green world of growing things, of the aesthetic pleasures of gardens and garden writing, and of the dreams that gardens inspire. |
| thurber writings and drawings: The 13 Clocks James Thurber, 2008 No Marketing Blurb |
| thurber writings and drawings: Vintage Thurber. A Collection ... of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber, Etc James Grover Thurber, 1963 |
| thurber writings and drawings: The White Deer , 1973 A Latvian tale of two brothers in search of an enchanted White Deer. |
| thurber writings and drawings: The Thurber Album James Thurber, 1952 Stories about the author's family, friends, teachers and colleagues in Columbus, Ohio. |
| thurber writings and drawings: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Joe Manchester, Leon Carr, Earl Shuman, 1968 Musical comedy Based on the story by James Thurber Characters: 5 male, 6 female, and as many extras as desired. Scenery: Various simple sets (or one basic set). On his fortieth birthday Walter Mitty reflects on his drab, ordinary life. Defeated in his quest for wealth and glory by family responsibilities, a mortgage, and a routine job, he creates elaborate fantasies in which he is the hero. His secret world is so enticing that he often loses sight of the boundary between dream and reali |
| thurber writings and drawings: Let Your Mind Alone! James Thurber, 1976-01-01 |
| thurber writings and drawings: A Collection in Two Vols., of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber James Grover Thurber, 1963 |
| thurber writings and drawings: The Thurber Letters Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber, 2007-11-01 Though he died more than forty years ago, James Thurber remains one of America's greatest and most enduring humorists, and his books -- for both adults and children -- remain as popular as ever. In this comprehensive collection of his letters -- the majority of which have never before been published -- we find unsuspected insights into his life and career. His prodigious body of work -- fables, drawings, comic essays, reportage, short stories, including his famous The Secret Life of Walter Mitty -- all define Thurber's special and prolific genius. Like most good humorists, he was prone to exaggeration, embellishment, and good-natured self-deprecation. In his letters we find startling revelations about who he really was, and why the prism through which he viewed the world could often be both painfully and delightfully distorting. For the first time, Thurber's daughter Rosemary has allowed the publication of many of the extremely personal letters he wrote early in his life to the women he was -- usually hopelessly -- in love with, as well as the affectionate and hilarious letters that he wrote to her. In addition, Harrison Kinney, noted Thurber biographer, has located a number of Thurber letters never before published. The Thurber Letters traces Thurber's progress from lovesick college boy to code clerk with the State Department in Paris and reporter for the Columbus Dispatch, through his marriages and love affairs, his special relationship with his daughter, his illustrious and tumultuous years with The New Yorker, his longstanding relationship with E. B. White, his close friendship with Peter De Vries, and his tragic last days. Included in the book are Thurber drawings never before published. His candid comments in these personal letters, whether lighthearted or melancholy, comprise an entertaining, captivating, informal biography -- pure, wonderful Thurber. |
| thurber writings and drawings: Collecting Himself Michael J. Rosen, 2011-05-31 “Thurber is. . . a landmark in American humor. . . he is the funniest artist who ever lived.” — New Republic James Thurber spent most of his career at the New Yorker magazine, drawing cartoons and writing essays and stories. Collecting Himself is a one-of-a-kind compilation of James Thurber's vintage writings, featuring previously unanthologized articles, essays, interviews, reviews, cartoons, parodies, as well as Thurber's reflections on his work in theater and at the New Yorker. An eclectic body of work that offers a glimpse into Thurber the man, the philosopher, and the critic. |
| thurber writings and drawings: Thurber Country James Thurber, 1982-01-01 Twenty-five character sketches reveal the popular humorist's keen observations of the human species |
James Thurber - Wikipedia
James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright. He was best known for his cartoons and short …
James Thurber | American Humorist, Cartoonist & Author
James Thurber was an American writer and cartoonist, whose well-known and highly acclaimed writings and drawings picture the urban man as one who escapes into fantasy because he is …
Thurber House — BIOGRAPHY — Literary Center and James Thurber …
James Thurber was a humorist, cartoonist, author, playwright, and journalist known for his quirky and relatable characters and themes.
James Thurber
Internationally recognized as one of the preeminent humorists in American history, Columbus’s native son, James Thurber, created an unparalleled array of some three dozen books: short …
Analysis of James Thurber’s Stories - Literary Theory and Criticism
Jun 24, 2020 · James Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) is best known as the author of humorous sketches, stories, and reminiscences dealing with urban bourgeois …
James Thurber Lost Most of His Eyesight to a Tragic Childhood Accident
James Thurber published some two dozen books of stories, essays, and cartoons during his lifetime, but in the years since his death in 1961, he’s been known mostly as the author of “The …
The Years with James Thurber - The New Yorker
Aug 31, 2003 · The Thurber woman is generally thought of as bossy, angry, unreasonable, whether encountered in his stories—most famously “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “The …
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James Thurber was an American writer and artist. One of the most popular humorists (writers of clever humor) of his time, Thurber celebrated in stories and in cartoons the comic frustrations …
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We invite you to define the future of Thurber with us. As we near our fourth decade, we ask for your support to continue and create new programming that inspires generations to come. …
James Thurber - Encyclopedia.com
May 21, 2018 · Humorist, cartoonist, illustrator, and playwright.
James Thurber - Wikipedia
James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright. He was best known for his cartoons and short …
James Thurber | American Humorist, Cartoonist & Author
James Thurber was an American writer and cartoonist, whose well-known and highly acclaimed writings and drawings picture the urban man as one who escapes into fantasy because he is …
Thurber House — BIOGRAPHY — Literary Center and James Thurber …
James Thurber was a humorist, cartoonist, author, playwright, and journalist known for his quirky and relatable characters and themes.
James Thurber
Internationally recognized as one of the preeminent humorists in American history, Columbus’s native son, James Thurber, created an unparalleled array of some three dozen books: short …
Analysis of James Thurber’s Stories - Literary Theory and Criticism
Jun 24, 2020 · James Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) is best known as the author of humorous sketches, stories, and reminiscences dealing with urban bourgeois …
James Thurber Lost Most of His Eyesight to a Tragic Childhood Accident
James Thurber published some two dozen books of stories, essays, and cartoons during his lifetime, but in the years since his death in 1961, he’s been known mostly as the author of “The …
The Years with James Thurber - The New Yorker
Aug 31, 2003 · The Thurber woman is generally thought of as bossy, angry, unreasonable, whether encountered in his stories—most famously “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “The …
James Thurber Biography - life, family, school, book, …
James Thurber was an American writer and artist. One of the most popular humorists (writers of clever humor) of his time, Thurber celebrated in stories and in cartoons the comic frustrations …
Thurber House — About James Thurber — Literary Center and James Thurber …
We invite you to define the future of Thurber with us. As we near our fourth decade, we ask for your support to continue and create new programming that inspires generations to come. …
James Thurber - Encyclopedia.com
May 21, 2018 · Humorist, cartoonist, illustrator, and playwright.
