books by James Thurber     books:       The 13 Clocks35 reviews James Thurber NYR Children's Collection, 2008 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 ...             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.             The Thurber Carnival (Perennial Classics)13 reviews James Thurber Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999 THURBER!!!! The works and cartoons of James Thurber have had quite an influence on me over the years. At a very young age I was drawn to his cartoons (pardon the pun), and as I grew older developed a great appreciation of his writings. Decades after their inception, his works ring true.             The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces (Penguin Modern Classics)4 reviews James Thurber Penguin Classics, 2000 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is the best book i have ever read. Anyone you buy it for will absolutly love it. Children, teenagers, and even adults should read this book. It makes you want to jump in to one of Walter's day dreams the moment you read it. Thurber really out did him self. I have to say it is one of the funniest books i have ever read.             My World-and Welcome to It (Harvest Book)3 reviews James Thurber Harvest Books, 1969 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 ...             Fables for Our Time (Harper Colophon Books, Cn/999)4 reviews James Thurber Harper Perennial, 1983 "early to rise and early to bed... ...makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead." Quoting one of the fables; I remember reading this book thirty years ago. It is superb. The pictures are excellent too. I can still recall the man leaping down into the lion's pit to get the lady's glove, also the pictures of birds (shrikes, I think). I'll buy this one right away, my daughter will love it.             My Life and Hard Times (Perennial Classics)23 reviews James Thurber Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999 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 Dog Department: James Thurber on Hounds, Scotties, and Talking Poodles1 review James Thurber, Michael J. Rosen, ... HarperCollins, 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?             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 ...             Many Moons23 reviews James Thurber Harcourt Children's Books, 1943 A Non-Jesting Jester? The princess wanted the moon. Her father, the king, demanded it be gotten for her. As you can imagine, this causes problems for the king's servants. The Royal Wizard, Mathematician and the Lord High Chamberlain have done many near-impossible feats for the king--but getting the moon? It's out of the question! But the Royal Court Jester thinks not. (Is this another one of his jokes?) A funny ...             Campaign Warriors: Political Consultants in Elections1 review Brookings Institution Press, 2000 A Warrior of a Book Very rarely does any book delve into the mysterious world of the political consultant; in fact, these key players are merely treated as scenery by many other accounts. Thurber and Nelson's account suggests otherwise. CAMPAIGN WARRIORS is a compilation of articles that probes deeply into both the professional and personal lives of these political workers. The book takes a comprehensive approach to ...             The Wonderful O6 reviews James Thurber Yearling, 1992 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 ...             The Last Flower: A Parable in Pictures6 reviews James Thurber University Of Iowa Press, 2007 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 Years with Ross (Perennial Classics)5 reviews James Thurber Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001 How He Was Thurber got into trouble with his friend and co-New Yorker stalwart E.B. White for writing this portrait of their boss and benefactor. Between them the three wrote most of "The New Yorker" in its crucial first decades. These chapters, first written as a series of articles for "The Atlantic", are a model of the rich, primary source biography. Thurber pulls no punches. His Ross is not "a monument" ...             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. ...             Is Sex Necessary?: Or Why You Feel the Way You Do3 reviews James Thurber, E. B. White Harper Perennial, 2004 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.             People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration Of Drawings And Writings By James Thurber1 review James Thurber Harvest Books, 1995 Dated but Amusing Collection of Previously Uncollected Stuff People Have More Fun Than Anybody collects 19 of Thurber's stories/articles/letters, several cartoons, and one recipe that have been previously uncollected. Surely this is a classification that would have amused Thurber no end--are they now "non-uncollected" stories? In "Help! Help! Another Classificationization" Thurber sets himself against exactly this mindset. And frankly, at this late date in ...             Wonderful O James Thurber see notes for publisher info, 1957             Campaigns and Elections American Style, Second Edition (Transforming American Politics)4 reviews James A. Thurber, Candice J. Nelson Westview Press, 2004 A good book to read...! I'm a university student in Taiwan.The book has been translated in Chinese,and I've read the book.In the beginning,my professor suggest me to read it,then I did it.The book is really helpful to people to understand how's the campaigns & elections going on!             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 ...              search for books american, campaign, campaigns, carnival, celebration, centennial, classics, colophon, consultants, department, drawings, edition, editions, elections, illustrated, necessary, perennial, pictures, political, politics, quotations, scotties, selected, timeless, transforming, warriors, wonderful, wonderfully, world-and, writings books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Dialogues of Plato Impressum - about us get your own free shout box