Thurber carnival

Title:

Thurber carnival

Author:

Thurber, James, 1894-1961.

ISBN:

9780060932879

Publication Date:

1999

1999,

1931

Publication Information:

New York : Perennial Classics, 1999.

Physical Description:

425 p. ; 21 cm.

Language:

English

Subject Term:

Humorous stories, American.

Fables, American.

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Library	Material Type	Call Number	Status
Searching... Agoura Hills Library	Book	818	Searching... Unknown

Summary

"An authentic American genius. . . . Mr. Thurber belongs in the great lines of American humorists that includes Mark Twain and Ring Lardner." --Philadelphia Inquirer

James Thurber's unique ability to convey the vagaries of life in a funny, witty, and often satirical way earned him accolades as one of the finest humorists of the twentieth century. A bestseller upon its initial publication in 1945, The Thurber Carnival captures the depth of his talent and the breadth of his wit. The stories compiled here, almost all of which first appeared in The New Yorker, are from his uproarious and candid collection My World and Welcome to It--including the American classic "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"--as well as from The Owl in the Attic, The Seal in the Bathroom, Men, Women and Dogs. Thurber's take on life, society, and human nature is timeless and will continue to delight readers even as they recognize a bit of themselves in his brilliant sketches.

Foreword	p. xiii
Preface: My Fifty Years with James Thurber	p. xv
I Stories Not Collected Before in Book Form
The Lady on 142	p. 3
The Catbird Seat	p. 11
Memoirs of a Drudge	p. 21
The Cane in the Corridor	p. 28
The Secret Life of James Thurber	p. 35
Recollections of the Gas Buggy	p. 42
II from My World and Welcome to It
What Do You Mean it Was Brillig?	p. 51
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	p. 55
Here Lies Miss Groby	p. 61
The Man Who Hated Moonbaum	p. 65
The Macbeth Murder Mystery	p. 71
A Ride with Olympy	p. 76
III from Let Your Mind Alone!
Destructive Forces in Life	p. 87
Sex Ex Machina	p. 94
The Breaking up of the Winships	p. 101
The Admiral on the Wheel	p. 107
A Couple of Hamburgers	p. 111
Bateman Comes Home	p. 116
Doc Marlowe	p. 120
The Wood Duck	p. 126
IV from The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze
The Departure of Emma Inch	p. 133
There's an Owl in my Room	p. 139
The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery	p. 143
Snapshot of a Dog	p. 146
Something to Say	p. 151
The Curb in the Sky	p. 158
The Black Magic of Barney Haller	p. 162
If Grant had been Drinking at Appomattox	p. 167
The Remarkable Case of Mr. Bruhl	p. 171
The Luck of Jad Peters	p. 178
The Greatest Man in the World	p. 184
The Evening's at Seven	p. 192
One is a Wanderer	p. 196
V My Life and Hard Times, complete
Preface to a Life	p. 207
The Night the Bed Fell	p. 211
The Car We had to Push	p. 218
The Day the Dam Broke	p. 226
The Night the Ghost Got in	p. 233
More Alarms at Night	p. 240
A Sequence of Servants	p. 246
The Dog that Bit People	p. 253
University Days	p. 261
Draft Board Nights	p. 270
A Note at the End	p. 281
VI from Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated
The Birds and the Foxes	p. 287
The Little Girl and the Wolf	p. 289
The Scotty Who Knew too much	p. 291
The Very Proper Gander	p. 293
The Bear Who Let it alone	p. 295
The Shrike and the Chipmunks	p. 296
The Seal Who Became Famous	p. 299
The Crow and the Oriole	p. 300
The Moth and the Star	p. 303
The Glass in the Field	p. 305
The Rabbits Who Caused all the Trouble	p. 307
The Owl Who was God	p. 308
The Unicorn in the Carden	p. 310
Excelsior	p. 312
"Oh When I was ..."	p. 318
Barbara Frietchie	p. 320
The Sands O'Dee	p. 328
Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight	p. 332
VII from The Owl in the Attic
The Pet Department	p. 341
VIII from The Seal in the Bedroom
"With You I have Known Peace, Lida, and Now You Say You're Going Crazy"	p. 363
"Are You the Young Man That Bit My Daughter?"	p. 363
"Here's a Study for You, Doctor--He Faints"	p. 364
"Mamma Always Gets Sore and Spoils the Game for Everybody"	p. 364
"For the Last Time--You and Your Horsie Get Away from Me and Stay Away!"	p. 365
"Well, What's Come Over You Suddenly?"	p. 365
"Have You People Got Any .38 Cartridges?"	p. 366
"The Father Belonged to Some People Who Were Driving Through in a Packard"	p. 366
"Stop Me!"	p. 367
"I Don't Know. George Got It Somewhere"	p. 367
"All Right, Have It Your Way--You Heard a Seal Bark"	p. 368
The Bloodhound and the Bug	p. 369
IX from Men, Women and Dogs
"This is Not the Real Me You're Seeing, Mrs. Clisbie"	p. 379
"What's Come Over You Since Friday, Miss Schemke?"	p. 379
"Hello, Darling--Woolgathering?"	p. 380
"It's a Naive Domestic Burgundy Without Any Breeding, But I Think You'll Be Amused by Its Presumption"	p. 380
"Oh, Doctor Conroy--Look!"	p. 381
"I'd Feel a Great Deal Easier If Her Husband Hadn't Gone to Bed"	p. 381
"Touche!"	p. 382
"And This Is Tom Weatherby, an Old Beau of Your Mother's. He Never Got to First Base"	p. 382
"Perhaps This Will Refresh Your Memory"	p. 383
"... And Keep Me a Normal, Healthy, American Girl"	p. 383
"It's Parkins, Sir; We're 'Aving a Bit of a Time Below Stairs"	p. 384
"Darling, I Seem to Have This Rabbit"	p. 385
"That's My First Wife Up There, and This Is the Present Mrs. Harris"	p. 385
"You're Not My Patient, You're My Meat, Mrs. Quist!"	p. 386
"She Has the True Emily Dickinson Spirit Except That She Gets Fed Up Occasionally"	p. 386
"I Said the Hounds of Spring Are on Winter's Traces--But Let It Pass, Let It Pass!"	p. 387
"For Heaven's Sake, Why Don't You Go Outdoors and Trace Something?"	p. 387
"I Don't Want Him to Be Comfortable If He's Going to Look Too Funny."	p. 388
"Yoo-hoo, It's Me and the Ape Man"	p. 388
"Look Out! Here They Come Again!"	p. 389
"You Wait Here and I'll Bring the Etchings Down"	p. 389
"Well, Who Made the Magic Go Out of Our Marriage--You or Me?"	p. 390
House and Woman	p. 390
"Well, If I Called the Wrong Number, Why Did You Answer the Phone?"	p. 391
"This Gentleman Was Kind Enough to See Me Home, Darling"	p. 391
"I Come From Haunts of Coot and Hern!"	p. 392
"Well, I'm Disenchanted, Too. We're All Disenchanted"	p. 392
"What Do You Want to Be Inscrutable for, Marcia?"	p. 393
"You Said a Moment Ago That Everybody You Look at Seems to Be a Rabbit. Now Just What Do You Mean by That, Mrs. Sprague?"	p. 393
"Why, I Never Dreamed Your Union Had Been Blessed With Issue!"	p. 394
"Have You Seen My Pistol, Honey-bun?"	p. 394
"It's Our Own Story Exactly! He Bold as a Hawk, She Soft as the Dawn"	p. 395
"You and Your Premonitions!"	p. 396
"All Right, All Right, Try It That Way! Go Ahead and Try It That Way!"	p. 397
"Well, It Makes a Difference to Me!"	p. 397
"There's No Use You Trying to Save Me, My Good Man"	p. 398
Man in Tree	p. 399
"What Have You Done With Dr. Millmoss?"	p. 400
The War Between Men and Women	p. 401
About James Thurber	p. 413
The Thurber Carnival, 1945	p. 423

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