Lanterns & Lances

New York: Primus, (1992).

Price: $20.00

Softcover. First edition by this publisher. Near fine with a little flare to the foredge of the front cover, in wrappers.

Item #316414
ISBN: 1556112998

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Item #316414 Lanterns & Lances. James THURBER.

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

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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