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.
- ISBN10 0141182911
- ISBN13 9780141182919
- Publish Date 4 May 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 August 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Penguin Classics
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 416
- Language English