The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces - Brossura

Thurber, James

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ISBN 10: 0141182911 ISBN 13: 9780141182919

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2000

Riassunto

James Thurber is universally admired for his hilarious sense of humour, off-beat imagination, and unique take on the world around him. THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, in which a young man's fantasies have a much more powerful hold on him than reality, is probably his best-known prose work but this selection also contains wonderfully entertaining essays, poetry and cartoons gathered from all of Thurber's collections. Poking fun at 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 essential reading for everyone who loves to laugh.

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James Thurber was born in 1894 at Columbus, Ohio. 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, where much of his work was first published. He died in New York in 1961, and is today recognised as one of America's greatest twentieth-century humourists.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0141182911
• ISBN 13: 9780141182919
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416