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by: James Thurber
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 817.5
EAN: 9780156623445
ISBN: 0156623447
Label: Harvest Books
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 324
Publication Date: March 19, 1969
Publisher: Harvest Books
Sales Rank: 580312
Studio: Harvest Books
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Product Description:
The world of Thurber is splendidly sampled in these thirty stories, sketches, and articles that range from the wildest comedy to the serious business of murder. Animal courtship, maids, Macbeth, baseball, sailing, marriage-all fall within Thurber’s scope. Drawings by the Author.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Good humor.
I enjoyed this book, although it was a bit too slow for me. I'm more a Pat McManus guy.
Rating: - Very fun to read Thurber
Thurber is always fun and funny to read. Thurber fans need to add this book to their collections.
Rating: - A Minor Collection by a Great American Humorist
James Thurber is justly famous as one of 20th Century America's most astute humourists--but MY WORLD AND WELCOME TO IT does not really display the author to his best advantage. Even so, it does contain a few gems that make purchase of this title necessary to Thurber fans.
The showpiece of this collection is the famous but somewhat over-rated "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," but MY WORLD also includes a number of seldom anthologized pieces that show Thurber's wit at a high-water mark, ... Read More
Rating:  - Constant Companion
This collection of short essays and stories is marvellous. I have carried it with me on every trip I have taken since I first read it. I have my grandfather's copy, which has been on a longtime loan (say, ten years...) I am fondest of the essays, which range from clever little tirades against the Telephone Company and the Motor Vehicle Bureau to accounts and commentaries on Thurber's travels in France and Italy. It is really a wonderful wonderful book, very funny and acute. Please read it.
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