The Thurber Carnival
by:
James Thurber (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060143008 (0060143002)
Publish date: February 28th 1945
Publisher: HarperCollins
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.
The Macbeth Murder Mystery is just the funniest thing ever written. Read on."It was a stupid mistake to make," said the American woman I had met at my hotel in the English lake country, "but it was on the counter with the other Penguin books--the little sixpenny ones, you know, with the paper covers...
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