The Thurber Carnival
by:
James Thurber (author)
"Thurber is Thurber" was the helpless conclusion of The Times, after a long discussion of the well-spring of his humour. Thurber himself once described his stories as "mainly humorous but with a few kind-of-sad-ones mixed in." To him all is absurd yet understandable. He depicts in simple lines --...
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"Thurber is Thurber" was the helpless conclusion of The Times, after a long discussion of the well-spring of his humour.
Thurber himself once described his stories as "mainly humorous but with a few kind-of-sad-ones mixed in." To him all is absurd yet understandable. He depicts in simple lines -- and words -- the pathetic, yet humorous, stupidities of the people of his day and age.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780140008715 (0140008713)
Publish date: 1979
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Humor,
Writing,
Essays,
Funny,
Comedy,
Literature,
American,
20th Century,
Anthologies,
Short Stories
I find it difficult to categorize the genre which will fully describe The Thurber Carnival. It is humor with a generous helping of autobiography sprinkled with cartoons. There's short stories such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty which I mentioned previously. There are also twists on fairytales (o...
In fact I have already read this, but since I remember so little I must re-read it. First I will read My Life and Hard Times, because that is Turber's memoir and I prefer memoirs over short stories/essays.
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