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James Thurber (1894–1961)

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About the Author

Born in Columbus, Ohio, Thurber was blinded in one eye in a childhood accident. He attended Ohio State University but left without earning a degree. In 1925 he moved to New York City, where he joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1927 at the urging of his friend E. B. White. For the rest of his mostrar mais lifetime, Thurber contributed to the magazine his highly individual pieces and those strange, wry, and disturbing pen-and-ink drawings of "huge, resigned dogs, the determined and sometimes frightening women, the globular men who try so hard to think so unsuccessfully." The period from 1925, when the New Yorker was founded, until the death of its creator-editor, Harold Ross, in 1951, was described by Thurber in delicious and absorbing detail in The Years with Ross (1959). Of his two great talents, Thurber preferred to think of himself primarily as a writer, illustrating his own books. He published "fables" in the style of Aesop (see Vol. 2) and La Fontaine (see Vol. 2)---usually with a "barbed tip of contemporary significance"---children's books, several plays (two Broadway hits, one successful musical revue), and endless satires and parodies in short stories or full-length works. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," included in My World---and Welcome to It (1942), is probably his best-known story and continues to be frequently anthologized. T. S. Eliot described Thurber's work as "a form of humor which is also a way of saying something serious." (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Obras de James Thurber

The Thurber Carnival (1931) 2,571 cópias
The 13 Clocks (1950) 1,912 cópias
Many Moons (1943) 1,719 cópias
My Life and Hard Times (1933) 1,153 cópias
The Wonderful O (1957) 804 cópias
Thurber: Writings and Drawings (1996) 552 cópias
The Years with Ross (1957) 524 cópias
Lanterns & Lances (1960) 524 cópias
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces (1945) — Autor — 468 cópias
Thurber Country (1953) 430 cópias
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated (1940) — Ilustrador — 383 cópias
My World—and Welcome to It (1937) 354 cópias
The White Deer (1945) 326 cópias
Thurber's Dogs (1901) 295 cópias
Alarms and Diversions (1957) 278 cópias
James Thurber: 92 Stories (1985) 240 cópias
Further Fables for Our Time (1676) 210 cópias
The Thurber Album (1952) 192 cópias
The Great Quillow (1944) 178 cópias
Thurber on Crime (1991) — Autor — 173 cópias
The Genius of James Thurber (1997) 156 cópias
Let Your Mind Alone! (1707) 149 cópias
Credos and Curios (1962) 106 cópias
The Male Animal (1940) 45 cópias
The Tiger Who Would Be King (2014) 41 cópias
A Thurber carnival. (1962) 35 cópias
21 Essential American Short Stories (2011) — Contribuinte — 24 cópias
Collected Fables (2019) 17 cópias
The Catbird Seat (1942) 16 cópias
Cream of Thurber (1939) 15 cópias
The Night the Ghost Got In (1983) 11 cópias
The Unicorn in the Garden (1972) 11 cópias
The Fifth New Yorker Album (1932) 7 cópias
My World and Welcome to it (1942) 4 cópias
The World of James Thurber (1989) 4 cópias
Lachen mit Thurber (1964) 3 cópias
Třináctery hodiny (2008) 3 cópias
Thurber (1996) 3 cópias
Ein Mond für Leonore (1998) 2 cópias
Thurber Carnival, Thw 1 exemplar(es)
13 האורלוגין 1 exemplar(es)
Trzynaście zegarów 1 exemplar(es)
De tretten ure 1 exemplar(es)
The Rgurber Album 1 exemplar(es)
A Full Confession 1 exemplar(es)
Humor on Wry (1993) 1 exemplar(es)
O cartaz de Mr. Martin 1 exemplar(es)
La vita segreta di Walter Mitty (2012) 1 exemplar(es)
The Hound and the Bug 1 exemplar(es)
The Cases of Blue Ploermell (2021) 1 exemplar(es)
[No title] 1 exemplar(es)
Thurber on Humor (1994) 1 exemplar(es)
The Lady on the Bookcase 1 exemplar(es)
The Great Quillow 1 exemplar(es)
Storie e parole. (1960) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Nothing but the Truth (1991) — Contribuinte, algumas edições2,420 cópias
The Art of the Personal Essay (1994) — Contribuinte — 1,371 cópias
The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker (2004) — Cartoonist — 1,321 cópias
50 Great Short Stories (1952) — Contribuinte — 1,242 cópias
The Classic Fairy Tales [Norton Critical Edition] (1998) — Contribuinte — 1,001 cópias
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuinte, algumas edições915 cópias
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Contribuinte — 774 cópias
Short Story Masterpieces (1954) — Contribuinte — 675 cópias
Great American Short Stories (1957) — Contribuinte — 493 cópias
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Contribuinte — 461 cópias
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000) — Contribuinte — 452 cópias
Fifty Great American Short Stories (1965) — Contribuinte — 430 cópias
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993) — Contribuinte — 365 cópias
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Contribuinte — 354 cópias
Literature: The Human Experience (2006) — Contribuinte — 338 cópias
Baseball: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Contribuinte — 335 cópias
Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times (1994) — Contribuinte — 334 cópias
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004) — Contribuinte — 297 cópias
Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy (1998) — Contribuinte — 297 cópias
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Contribuinte — 291 cópias
A Treasury of Short Stories (1947) — Contribuinte — 291 cópias
A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941) — Contribuinte — 276 cópias
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Contribuinte — 267 cópias
The Literary Cat (1977) — Contribuinte — 241 cópias
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (1993) — Contribuinte — 207 cópias
Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1925 to 1940 (1940) — Contribuinte — 201 cópias
The New Yorker Book of Dog Cartoons (1992) — Contribuinte — 175 cópias
Murder & Other Acts of Literature (1997) — Contribuinte — 147 cópias
The Pocket Book of Modern American Short Stories (1943) — Contribuinte — 145 cópias
The Fireside Book of Dog Stories (1943) — Introdução; Contribuinte — 143 cópias
The Twelve Dancing Princesses, and Other Fairy Tales (1964) — Contribuinte — 143 cópias
An Anthology of Famous American Stories (1953) — Contribuinte — 137 cópias
The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories (2007) — Contribuinte — 133 cópias
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats (2013) — Contribuinte — 131 cópias
Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories (1990) — Contribuinte — 111 cópias
American Short Stories (1976) — Contribuinte, algumas edições95 cópias
Great Stories for Young Readers (1969) — Contribuinte — 90 cópias
A Book of Princesses (1963) — Contribuinte — 87 cópias
Bangs and Whimpers: Stories about the End of the World (1999) — Contribuinte — 83 cópias
The Best American Humorous Short Stories (1945) — Contribuinte — 82 cópias
Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre: Second Series (1947) — Contribuinte — 81 cópias
Baseball's Best Short Stories (1995) — Contribuinte — 79 cópias
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000) — Contribuinte — 69 cópias
Best SF: 1967 (1968) — Contribuinte — 69 cópias
55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1940 to 1950 (1949) — Contribuinte — 60 cópias
American Christmas Stories (2021) — Contribuinte — 59 cópias
Desert Island Decameron (1945) — Contribuinte — 57 cópias
Reading for Pleasure (1957) — Contribuinte — 51 cópias
Art of Fiction (1967) — Contribuinte — 51 cópias
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1943 (1943) — Contribuinte — 48 cópias
Great Baseball Stories (1979) — Contribuinte — 47 cópias
The Bedside Tales: A Gay Collection (1945) — Contribuinte — 45 cópias
The Random House Book of Sports Stories (1990) — Contribuinte — 45 cópias
Prose and Poetry for Appreciation (1934) — Contribuinte, algumas edições44 cópias
Unsolved! Classic True Murder Cases (1987) — Contribuinte — 40 cópias
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Contribuinte — 39 cópias
Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965 (1965) — Contribuinte — 36 cópias
Ellery Queen's Book of Mystery Stories by 25 Famous Writers (1952) — Contribuinte — 36 cópias
Stories for Tens and Over (1976) — Contribuinte — 35 cópias
Famous and Curious Animal Stories (1982) — Contribuinte — 29 cópias
The Big Book of Favorite Dog Stories (1964) — Contribuinte — 27 cópias
American short stories, 1820 to the present (1952) — Contribuinte — 26 cópias
A Book of Princes (1964) — Contribuinte — 25 cópias
Shot in the Dark (1950) — Contribuinte — 24 cópias
Tell Me a Story: An Anthology (1957) — Contribuinte — 23 cópias
The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories (1957) — Contribuinte; Contribuinte — 22 cópias
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contribuinte — 22 cópias
The Looking Glass Book of Stories (1960) — Contribuinte — 21 cópias
Designs in Fiction (1968) — Contribuinte — 20 cópias
A Treasury of American Humor (1996) — Contribuinte — 18 cópias
Short Stories II (1961) — Contribuinte — 18 cópias
Twentieth-Century American Short Stories: An Anthology (1975) — Contribuinte — 17 cópias
20th Century American Short Stories, Volume 1 (1995) — Contribuinte — 16 cópias
The Saturday Evening Post Book of the Sea and Ships (1978) — Contribuinte — 16 cópias
All verdens fortellere (1990) — Contribuinte, algumas edições15 cópias
Modern American Short Stories (1945) — Contribuinte — 15 cópias
The Panorama of Modern Literature (1934) — Contribuinte — 14 cópias
New Stories for Men (1941) — Contribuinte — 13 cópias
31 Stories (1960) — Contribuinte — 12 cópias
American Short Stories, Vol.5, The Twentieth Century (1957) — Autor, algumas edições11 cópias
The Playboy Book of Short Stories (1995) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
The Best American Short Stories 1943 (1943) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
Favorite Animal Stories (1987) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
High Gear: Great Stories About Fast Cars and Their Drivers (1955) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
Tales for Males (1945) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
Cat Encounters: A Cat-Lover's Anthology (1979) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
The best of the Best American short stories, 1915-1950 (1975) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
Fun Phantoms: Tales of Ghostly Entertainment (1979) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
Moderne Amerikaanse verhalen (1982) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
World's Great Humorous Stories (1944) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
Tall Short Stories (1960) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
Murder Without Tears (1946) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
The Caedmon Short Story Collection (2001) — Contribuinte — 8 cópias
British and American Essays, 1905-1956 (1959) — Contribuinte — 7 cópias
Twelve Short Masterpieces (1986) — Contribuinte — 7 cópias
Time to Be Young: Great Stories of the Growing Years (1945) — Contribuinte — 7 cópias
Dealers Choice: The Worlds Greatest Poker Stories (1955) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
The bear went over the mountain (1964) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
Giants! Giants! Giants! (1980) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Post Stories of 1941 (1942) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Life Styles (2001) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Cats: Fifteen Complete Stories and Poems (1998) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
The Moth and Other Stories (1991) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
The Best American Short Stories 1942 (1942) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
Eighteen Stories (1965) 4 cópias
The Stakes are High (1954) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
American Short Stories (1978) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Let Us Be Men (1969) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
American Humor and Satire (1992) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
El cuento literario (2008) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Eyes of Boyhood (1953) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Rex Lardner Selects the Best of Sports Fiction — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
The College Short Story Reader (1948) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
American Short Stories (Oxford Literature Resources) (1992) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Modern British and American short stories (1982) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
14 American Masterpieces Vol.1 — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Eleven American Stories — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
The Avon Annual: 18 Great Story of Today (1944) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Al pie del acantilado — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Behind the Wheel: Stories of Cars on Road and Track — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
The Narrative Impulse: Short Stories for Analysis (1963) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)

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moonlit.shelves | outras 77 resenhas | Feb 14, 2024 |
It's obviously very silly but it has the decency to recognize itself as such.
The 13 Clocks could be a master class on figurative language. Monsters and described monstrously, jewels are described jewelishly, killing time necessitates hours and seconds to bleed out onto the floor. It's an important detail too many authors completely forget. Why tell me that your beloved is like the morning sun when you can have her literally melt snow and provoke birds into song?
 
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ethorwitz | outras 77 resenhas | Jan 3, 2024 |
James Thurber is a humorist. This has a beautiful introduction by Neil Gaiman.
 
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FamiliesUnitedLL | outras 77 resenhas | Dec 31, 2023 |
Princess Lenore is ill from eating too many raspberry tarts. She believes that possessing the moon is the only thing that will cure her. Despite a command from the King, neither the Lord High Chamberlain nor the Royal Wizard nor the Royal Mathematician can get the moon for her. Only when the clever Court Jester consults the Princess herself is the problem solved - with characteristic Thurber wit.
 
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PlumfieldCH | outras 54 resenhas | Nov 29, 2023 |

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E. B. White Introduction
Frank Stockton Contributor
O'Henry Contributor
William Faulkner Contributor
Herman Melville Contributor
Mark Twain Contributor
Ernest Hemingway Contributor
Edith Wharton Contributor
Edgar Allan Poe Contributor
Jack London Contributor
Stephen Crane Contributor
Shirley Jackson Contributor
Ambrose Bierce Contributor
Washington Irving Contributor
H. P. Lovecraft Contributor
Carl Stephenson Contributor
Marc Simont Illustrator
Michael J. Rosen Editor, Commentaries, Introduction
A. E. Houseman Contributor
Leigh Hunt Contributor
Charles Kingsley Contributor
Sir Walter Scott Contributor
Helen Thurber Editor, Foreword
Leon Carr Composer
Frans Bruning Translator
Tullio Pericoli Cover artist
Neil Gaiman Introduction
Peter Ustinov Narrator
Louis Slobodkin Illustrator
John K. Hutchens Introduction
Ransom Riggs Introduction
John Updike Foreword
Derek Birdsall Cover designer
Gillian Lewis Cover designer
Celia Filipetto Translator
C. Linda Dingler Cover designer
Don Freeman Illustrator
Steven Kellogg Illustrator
Dorris Lee Illustrator
Ronald Searle Illustrator

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Membros
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Avaliação
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Resenhas
335
ISBNs
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Idiomas
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