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This collection brings together the best of James Thurber's brilliantly funny, eccentric and anarchic writings.

About the Author

James Thurber was born in 1894 at Columbus, Ohio, where, as he once said, so many awful things happened to him. After university (Ohio State) he worked at the American Embassy in Paris from 1918 to 1920, and then turned to journalism. From 1927 onwards he was on the staff of the New Yorker, and first published much of his work in it. He died in New York in 1961, and is today recognised as one of America's greatest twentieth-century humourists.

Reviews

One of the absolutely essential books of our time
*Saturday Review of Literature*

One of the great humorists
*Sunday Times*