The Thurber Carnival

New York: Harper, 1945.

Price: $18.00

Hardcover. Good hardcover. Later printing. Name on front endpaper. Pages light brown. Corners bent. Edges of spine bumped. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Item #246543

item image

James Thurber
birth name: James Thurber
born: 12/8/1894
died: 11/2/1961

View Reference Info

Biography

American writer and cartoonist noted for his vison of the urban man as one who escapes into fantasy because he is befuddled and beset by a world that he neither created nor understands. Thurber's best-known portrait of this character is probably Walter Mitty. Thurber's stock characters-the snarling wife, her timid, hapless husband, and a roster of serene, silently observing animals-have become classics of urban mythology. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore