People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings by James Thurber

THURBER, James

ISBN 10: 0151000948 ISBN 13: 9780151000944

Published by Harcourt, New York, 1994

Language: English

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Boards and Cloth. Fine/Fine Dj. 1st Edition. Octavo. 100 or so previously uncollected drawings and writings.

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People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings by James Thurber

Publisher

Harcourt, New York

Publication Date

1994

Language

English

ISBN 10

0151000948

ISBN 13

9780151000944

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First edition.

Condition

Fine

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fine

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In this centennial volume of previously uncollected work, James Thurber continues to flourish. Here is the pleasure of recognizing this comic genius at work again, with his suspicious, civilized, unsettling wit. Included are eighteen prose pieces and over seventy-five drawings by the only cartoonist who could claim to draw "abstract things like despair, disillusion, despondency, sorrow, lapse of memory, exile . . . sometimes in a shape that might be called Man or Woman." Here are drawings with such contemporary smarts that they still sting, including dozens of reports from the front line in that cold war between the sexes.
This is Thurber at his most entertaining, praising things canine in two marvelous tributes, musing over the promises of mail sweepstakes, confessing his aversion to anything mechanical, puzzling over the animal kingdom's curious uprisings, reconsidering the value of Byrd's claiming of the icy lands of Antarctica ("Are we landowners or ice dealers? Are we men or penguins?"), and observing the fate of sex. For good measure, Michael Rosen offers the recipe for Thurber's favorite birthday cake, the Never-Fail Devil's Food.

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James Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1894. Famous for his humorous writings and illustrations, he was a staff member of The New Yorker for more than thirty years. He died in 1961.

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