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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100060933089

ISBN-139780060933081

eBay Product ID (ePID)1602042

Product Key Features

Book TitleMy Life and Hard Times

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicTechniques / Cartooning, Personal Memoirs, Topic / Marriage & Family, Literary

Publication Year1999

FeaturesLarge Type

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Biography & Autobiography, Humor

AuthorJames Thurber

Book SeriesPerennial Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight4.4 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN99-015618

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsThe late James Thurber from Columbus, Ohio, in the course of his work as an ironic and comic genius, was as rare a thing as can be found in the United States--a stark American without a trace of corn, and a first-class sensibility without a tinge of the precious. He died within twelve months of Hemingway and Faulkner, and Thurber himself is already a figure, at once looming and modest, in the national pantheon., Possibly the shortest and most elegant autobiography ever written . . . .The Brevity Thurber achieved in My Life and Hard Times by stopping at 1918 seems almost incoceivable today when the most typical biography feels more like a bludgeon than a book, "As a humorist Thurber is contemporary and timeless." -- The Spectator "Possibly the shortest and most elegant autobiography ever written." -- Russell Baker "The late James Thurber from Columbus, Ohio, in the course of his work as an ironic and comic genius, was as rare a thing as can be found in the United States--a stark American without a trace of corn, and a first-class sensibility without a tinge of the precious. He died within twelve months of Hemingway and Faulkner, and Thurber himself is already a figure, at once looming and modest, in the national pantheon." -- Newsweek "Thurber's My Life and Hard Times is just about the best thing I've ever read." -- Ogden Nash

Dewey Decimal817.5

Edition DescriptionLarge Type / large print edition

Synopsis"Thurber is. . . a landmark in American humor. . . he is the funniest artist who ever lived." -- New Republic Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that defined his famous sketches and writings. In My Life and Hard times, first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful chaos and frustrations of family, boyhood, youth, odd dogs, recalcitrant machinery, and the foibles of human nature., "Thurber is...a landmark in American humor...he is the funniest artist who ever lived." -- New Republic Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that defined his famous sketches and writings. In My Life and Hard times, first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful chaos and frustrations of family, boyhood, youth, odd dogs, recalcitrant machinery, and the foibles of human nature.

LC Classification NumberPS3539.H94Z474 1999