James Thurber

This is the very best of James Thurber's hilarious short stories and essays, to tie-in with the major new film starring Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig. Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary day dreams - in which the life he leads is one of excitement and even adventure, in which he - a weary, put upon middle-aged man - is the hero of his own story. A man can dream, can't he? The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is just one of the brilliant humorous and witty stories written by James Thurber and collected here. 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.

La obra más aclamada de James Thurber, prestigioso autor y uno de los colaborades clásicos de The New Yorker. Formó parte del círculo de E. B. White, Dorothy Parker y Truman Capote, entre otros. Una obra que disfrutaran tanto niños- como adultos- que gozaran con las alegorias de Thurber, sus juegos metaliterarios y su humor negro-.

Lectura recomanada a les escolesEls 13 rellotges és una faula per adults i un conte fantàstic per nens. Escrita en un estil poètic i cadenciós, ple de delicioses rimes internes, explica la història d

Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary day dreams - in which the life he leads is one of excitement and even adventure, in which he - a weary, put upon middle-aged man - is the hero of his own story. A man can dream, can't he? The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is just one of the brilliant humorous and witty stories written by James Thurber and collected here.

This is the hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', collected in this classic anthology. This collection brings together the best of James Thurber's brilliantly funny, eccentric and anarchic writings. It includes his most famous work, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, in which an ordinary man's fantasies have a more powerful hold on him than reality, as well as essays, poetry and cartoons gathered from all of Thurber's collections. Making fun of his own weaknesses and those of other people (and dogs) - the English teacher who looked only at figures of speech, the Airedale who refused to include him in the family, the botany lecturer who despaired of him totally - James Thurber is a true original, whose off-beat imagination shows us everyday life from a different angle. 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. "One of the absolutely essential books of our time". (Saturday Review of Literature). "One of the great humorists". (Sunday Times).

Esta obra es una parábola ilustrada que encierra una verdad sencilla pero no por ello menos profunda acerca del ciclo eterno de la vida, la muerte y el renacer. Publicada originalmente en 1939 el "staccato" de las botas militares es el ritmo que se oye al

Una aventura deliciosa per a nens i adultsEn Littlejack té un mapa del tresor i el capità pirata Black té un vaixell, l’Aeiu, així que el més lògic és que es posin d’acord per viatjar a una illa remo

Una deliciosa aventura para niños y adultos Littlejack tiene un mapa del tesoro y el capitán pirata Black tiene un barco, el Aeiu, así que lo más lógico es que se pongan de acuerdo para viajar a una

James Thurber ha sido llamado «uno de los más grandes humoristas del mundo» por Alistair Cook de The Atlantic y «una de las grandes instituciones norteamericanas» por Stanley Walker del New York Hera

«Una deliciosa alegoría del amor, el valor y la libertad.» Publisher’s Weekly

Brillante y disparatado, James Thurber saltó de las páginas de The New Yorker a la escena literaria norteamericana a finales de los años veinte. Su humor, ácido y extraordinariamente original—«Thurbe

Una faula antibel·licista que haurien de llegir tots els nens. I tots els adults.Originalment publicada el novembre del 1939, dos mesos després de la invasió de Polònia per les tropes alemanyes, la f

Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do (1929) is a brilliant satirical work that humorously dissects the popular psychological and social theories about sex, love, and human behavior prevalent in the early twentieth century. Written by E. B. White and James Thurber, the book adopts the tone of a mock scientific study, complete with absurd charts, invented terminology, and tongue-in-cheek definitions.Rather than offering genuine explanations, the authors parody the eras obsession with analyzing emotions through pseudo-scientific language. Topics such as romance, neurosis, marriage, passion, repression, and gender relations are treated with elegant irony and playful exaggeration. The humor lies in exposing how attempts to rationalize feelings often lead to confusion rather than clarity.The book does not aim to answer whether sex is "necessary" in any serious sense; instead, it mocks the cultural impulse to intellectualize what is fundamentally emotional and irrational. With sharp wit and understated elegance, White and Thurber critique modern societys faith in psychology as a universal explanatory tool.Enduringly fresh, Is Sex Necessary? remains a classic of American humor, celebrated for its intelligence, restraint, and timeless commentary on human relationships and emotional bewilderment.