James Thurber (1894–1961)
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Born in Columbus, Ohio, Thurber was blinded in one eye in a childhood accident. He attended Ohio State University but left without earning a degree. In 1925 he moved to New York City, where he joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1927 at the urging of his friend E. B. White. For the rest of his mostra altro lifetime, Thurber contributed to the magazine his highly individual pieces and those strange, wry, and disturbing pen-and-ink drawings of "huge, resigned dogs, the determined and sometimes frightening women, the globular men who try so hard to think so unsuccessfully." The period from 1925, when the New Yorker was founded, until the death of its creator-editor, Harold Ross, in 1951, was described by Thurber in delicious and absorbing detail in The Years with Ross (1959). Of his two great talents, Thurber preferred to think of himself primarily as a writer, illustrating his own books. He published "fables" in the style of Aesop (see Vol. 2) and La Fontaine (see Vol. 2)---usually with a "barbed tip of contemporary significance"---children's books, several plays (two Broadway hits, one successful musical revue), and endless satires and parodies in short stories or full-length works. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," included in My World---and Welcome to It (1942), is probably his best-known story and continues to be frequently anthologized. T. S. Eliot described Thurber's work as "a form of humor which is also a way of saying something serious." (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di James Thurber
Thurber's men, women, and dogs, a book of drawings with a preface by Dorothy Parker (1943) 190 copie
Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor, and Himself (1989) — Autore — 126 copie
People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration Of Drawings And Writings (1994) 59 copie
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber: v. 2 (1963) 40 copie
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber:Two Volume Set (1974) 39 copie
Selected Shorts: Timeless Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2005) 38 copie
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber: v. 1 (1963) 35 copie
Is Sex Necessary?, etc 3 copie
The Wood Duck [short story] 3 copie
The Night the Bed Fell 3 copie
Doc Marlowe [short story] 2 copie
The years with Ross 2 copie
A Thurber garland 2 copie
A Thurber Carnival 2 copie
You Could Look It Up 2 copie
Thurber Carnival, Thw 1 copia
13 האורלוגין 1 copia
Further Fables of Our Times 1 copia
Trzynaście zegarów 1 copia
My World---And Welcome to It 1 copia
O cartaz de Mr. Martin 1 copia
My Life and Hard Times, etc 1 copia
The Rgurber Album 1 copia
Der große kleine Spielzeugmacher 1 copia
Favole per il nostro tempo 1 copia
A Full Confession 1 copia
The Lady on 142 {short story} 1 copia
Memoirs of a Drudge {essay} 1 copia
The Macbeth Murder Mystery 1 copia
A Ride with Olympy {essay} 1 copia
The Hound and the Bug 1 copia
De tretten ure 1 copia
[No title] 1 copia
The Great Quillow 1 copia
Zehn goldene Regeln für das Zusammenleben mit 100 warnenden Beispielen / Der Hund, der die Leute biß. Und andere… (1996) 1 copia
The Lady on the Bookcase 1 copia
Opere correlate
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 917 copie
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Collaboratore — 709 copie
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991) — Collaboratore — 565 copie
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Collaboratore — 245 copie
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Collaboratore — 131 copie
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Collaboratore — 103 copie
Cavalcade of comedy; 21 brilliant comedies from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward (1953) — Collaboratore — 96 copie
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Collaboratore — 83 copie
The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Seven Unforgettable Stories (2002) — Collaboratore — 77 copie
Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Collaboratore — 67 copie
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Collaboratore — 55 copie
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Collaboratore — 30 copie
Discovering Fiction Student's Book 1: A Reader of American Short Stories (2001) — Collaboratore — 19 copie
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (1944) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Alexanders langes Leben, Stalins früher Tod und andere abwegige Geschichten. Erzählungen und Berichte aus… (1999) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten (American Short Stories) (English and German Edition) (1956) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Voor en na middernacht : vierendertig beroemde spook- en griezelverhalen (1949) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
Rex Lardner Selects the Best of Sports Fiction — Collaboratore — 2 copie
14 American Masterpieces Vol.1 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Eleven American Stories — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Configurations: American Short Stories for the EFL Classroom, Advanced Level (1984) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Al pie del acantilado — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Behind the Wheel: Stories of Cars on Road and Track — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Thurber, James
- Nome legale
- Thurber, James Grover
- Data di nascita
- 1894-12-08
- Data di morte
- 1961-11-02
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa della morte
- complications from pneumonia
- Luogo di residenza
- Washington, D.C., USA
Paris, France
New York, New York, USA
Columbus, Ohio, USA - Istruzione
- Ohio State University
- Attività lavorative
- cartoonist
author
playwright
reporter
code clerk - Organizzazioni
- The New Yorker
U.S. Department of State - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Caldecott Medal (1944)
Utenti
Discussioni
Found: Kid’s book about a haunted castle in Name that Book (Novembre 2023)
Recensioni
James Thurber is a humorist. This has a beautiful introduction by Neil Gaiman.
Princess Lenore is ill from eating too many raspberry tarts. She believes that possessing the moon is the only thing that will cure her. Despite a command from the King, neither the Lord High Chamberlain nor the Royal Wizard nor the Royal Mathematician can get the moon for her. Only when the clever Court Jester consults the Princess herself is the problem solved - with characteristic Thurber wit.
The cartoons are excellent, however in the articles (usually for the New Yorker) the humour is a bit forced.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 154
- Opere correlate
- 152
- Utenti
- 16,550
- Popolarità
- #1,371
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 335
- ISBN
- 317
- Lingue
- 13
- Preferito da
- 81
The 13 Clocks could be a master class on figurative language. Monsters and described monstrously, jewels are described jewelishly, killing time necessitates hours and seconds to bleed out onto the floor. It's an important detail too many authors completely forget. Why tell me that your beloved is like the morning sun when you can have her literally melt snow and provoke birds into song?