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Is sex necessary? (Armed Services edition)

3 reviews
James Thurber

Editions for the Armed Services, 1944

What a romp!
Thurber's and White's text satirizing the hullabaloo that our dearest lunatic, Mr. Sigmund Freud, began takes whatever cake is being handed out for satirical writing. It's universally funny, lucid, and did I mention funny? It's hilarious. One should pull out one's thesaurus at this point to find other such words, and all will be a propos. The book should have been a trilogy.

The middle-aged man on the flying trapeze (Armed Services edition)

1 review
James Thurber

Editions for the Armed Services, 1944

One of Thurber's best
How could such a gem ever go out of print? This collection contains some of Thurber's best stuff. Opening up with "The Gentleman is Cold," one of those stories that are funny just because they're so depressingly true to the petty humiliations of life, the book goes on from triumph to triumph. "Mr. Prebles Gets Rid of His Wife," "The Private Life of Mr. Bidwell" (he breathes), "Everything is ...

Thurber: Writings and Drawings (Library of America)

7 reviews
James Thurber

Library of America, 1996

One of the best kept secrets of American Literature!
I've often thought that Thurber doesn't get the credit today that he deserves as a writer. This is probably because his works are not "deep" in terms of meaning or content. His mastery of language, though,is superb, and his stories are some of the most hilarious and best written I have ever read. I can read many of them over and over and still laugh out loud! His cartoons are clever as ...

Last Flower

6 reviews
James Thurber

Queens House, 1977

This is one of Thurber's best works.
E. B. White thought this was Thurber's best book I agree that it is among the best. Written for his young daughter, it is an anti-war book of the right sort, emphasizing both the inescapability of war hostility and the devastation war causes. It is a perfect book for an adult to read to a thoughtful child--or for any adult to read in any circumstance. The line drawings (cartoons is not quite ...

The Wonderful O

6 reviews
James Thurber

Dove Kids, 1996

Oh, no -- no O
Pirates come to plunder a small island. When the spokesman tells them they have no treasure "except the blue of the water and the pink of our maidens' cheeks and lips, and the green of our fields," the pirates don't believe them and search high and low. Meanwhile, the captain of the ship, who hates the letter O, issues an edict. "I'll get rid of the letter O, in upper case and lower...All words ...

Books and Reading: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)

2 reviews
John Keats, Mark Twain, ...

Dover Publications, 2002

Books & Reading
Because of my professional career, I collect quotation books about reading and literacy. And this collection by Bill Bradfield is the best I've found to date. Yes, he's got the standard oldies by folks like Emerson, Erasmus, and Shaw but he's also included up-to-date quotations from the likes of Jerry Seinfeld, Malcolm X, and Stephen King. Granted, he included me in the list but I didn't need it ...

My life and hard times (Armed Services edition)

23 reviews
James Thurber

Editions for the Armed Services, 1945

Still funny after all these years!
I am 52 yrs. old. I read this book in High School and couldn't put it down. When I read it again as adult, I laughed even harder because somehow it made having the weirdest family in the whole world a joke instead of a hardship. It made Thurber's family, the Coneheads, the Simpsons, and the Osbornes seem like life is good as long as you can laugh once in a while, and even better if you can ...

The 13 Clocks

35 reviews
James Thurber

Fireside/ Simon & Schuster, 1977

Watch Out For the Todal, by Rory Haglund
Watch out for the Todal James Thurber's The Thirteen Clocks is a delightful tale for people of all ages. I was first introduced to this seemingly conventional story at age five when my father read it to me as a pleasant bedtime story. It was not until I could read for myself that I began to notice what sets this story apart from so many other children's stories--its characters and great ...

Fireside Book of Dog Stories With an Introduction by James Thurber

2 reviews

Simon & Schuster, 1943

Times change the Heart of a Dog never does.
this book is a collection of stories of owners and dogs. Some are written during the world war two era. This book is filled with wonderful stories,heart wrenching, witty, funny and true. Some of famous people and their beloved pet. Hunting dogs,family pets, wise and wonderful. This is truly a curl up and enjoy collection of stories. This book was printed before the invention of dog food.. when ...

The Great Quillow

4 reviews
James Thurber

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1975

Wonderful story for ALL ages.
Marvelous illustrations. Great story about how brains can win out over braun. The Great Quillow is a character to be admired. Told with humor and feeling. I purchased my own copy to keep. One of the best.

Thurber Country

1 review
James Thurber

Books on Tape, Inc., 1979

LET US NOT LOOSE THIS MAN'S WORK!
Alas, James Thurber grows dimmer and dimmer in reader's and public's eyes as time goes buy. This is truly a shame as Thurber is probably one of the funniest of our or social commentators of this past century. I recently took an informal survey of high school seniors (about two hundred as a matter of fact) and not one of them knew or had ever heard of James Thurber. What a pity. ...

The Battle for Congress: Consultants, Candidates, and Voters

1 review

Brookings Institution Press, 2001

For anyone wanting to learn more about the electoral process
The Battle For Congress: Consultants, Candidates, And Voters was published to specifically to help readers understand modern campaigns for seats in Congress, as well as the workings of America's representative democracy. It contains in-depth examinations of six political campaigns from the heated House election year of 1998: specifically, the House contests in California, Connecticut, Georgia, ...

Muchas Lunas Many Moons

1 review
James Thurber

Lectorum Pubns Inc (J), 1983

Senor James Thurber's enchanting tale about wanting the moon
The metaphorical way of asking for the impossible has been "to ask for the moon" for as long as I can remember. I have tried to find out the origin of the phrase, but the best I can do is trace it back to the 1942 film "Now, Voyager," where Bette Davis says to Paul Henreid, "Don't let's ask for the moon, we have the stars." Perhaps the origin is lost in the mists of the past, which ends up being ...

A Thurber Carnival

1 review
James Thurber

Samuel French, 1962

A Thurber Carnival
A selection of sketches divided into two acts written for 5 men and 4 women by one of America's greatest humorists. Highlights include: "The Night the Bed Fell," "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," "Gentlemen Shoppers," "The Pet Department," and "File and Forget."

The Dog Department : James Thurber on Hounds, Scotties, and Talking Poodles

1 review
James Thurber, Michael J. Rosen, 2001

A must
This book contains one of the great dog stories of all time: THE DOG WHO BIT PEOPLE....... Scratch that ...... This book contains one of the great stories -- period -- of all time, THE DOG WHO BIT PEOPLE. Once you have read this story you will remember it forever. Isn't that the definition of a "great" story?

The Thirteen Clocks by Thurber

1 review
James Thurber

Dell Yearling, 1992

Killing time; or thirteen frozen clocks
James Thurber went to Bermuda to finish a book, and wrote The Thirteen Clocks instead. He says it was escapism and self-indulgence. If so, the world needs more self-indulgence, because this book is pure fun. It's a simple fairy tale, a book to be shared with a child. The water-color illustrations by Mark Simont are a perfect enhancement to the mood of the story. The tale opens with an evil ...

Secret Lives of Walter Mitty and of James Thurber (Wonderfully Illustrated Short Pieces)

1 review
James Thurber

Collins Design, 2006

A Longstanding Pair
Thurber and Simont were friends and neighbors in West Cornwall, Connecticut, when Simont was a young man. After Thurber lost his own eyesight, Simont illustrated such works of Thurber's as "The Thirteen Clocks" and "The Wonderful O". Recently, Simont provided new illustrations for a new edition of "Many Moons", the first illustrations of which had earned Louis Slobodkin a Caldecott Award. ...

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: And You Could Look It Up (Volume 6)

1 review
James Thurber

Radio Yesteryear Audio, 1988

The secret life of Walter Mitty
I loved this book! The symbolism Thurber uses is beyond what most could imagine. I feel most everyone who reads this book will be able to identify with one or more of the characters. We are all guilty of daydreaming at one time or another and this book is a wonderful illustration of that. I also thought this would be a book most have never heard of, but to my surprise the most important ...

Selected Shorts: Timeless Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)

1 review
James Thurber, Edith Wharton, ...

Symphony Space, 2006

Selected Shorts: Timeless Classics (Selected Shorts series)
So much fun! Great for a few minutes or hours.

Let Your Mind Alone

1 review
James Thurber

Amereon Limited, 1980

The funniest book on psychology ever written
This book is so funny I laugh out loud every time I read it. Thurber reads and comments on a handful of "Self-help" books like "Be Glad Your Neurotic." Finally, he decides the best thing to do is to let your mind alone.

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