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"There has never been anything like this before, and there will never be anything like this again…[Thurber] takes such delight in the words. It's like it's written by somebody who wants to infect you with his love of words. There are poems hidden in the text. There are places where it wanders into rhyme and out again. There are all of the invented words. The story itself is nonsense in the finest possible way." —Neil Gaiman, interviewed in The Wall Street Journal
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Comic, warm, contemplative and open-ended.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- James Thurber, Marc Simont, Neil Gaiman
- First published
- 1950
- Pages
- 124
- Publisher
- Caedmon Audio Cassette, Audio Literature, Hamish Hamilton
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143110149
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The author of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and the creator of numerous New Yorker magazine cover cartoons, was born in Columbus, Ohio on December, 8, 1894. One of the foremost American humorists of the 20th century, his inimitable wit and pithy prose spanned a breadth of genres, including short stories, modern commentary, fiction, children's fantasy and letters. Thurber's father, Charles, was a civil clerk, and his mother, Mame, was an eccentric woman who would influence many of her son's stories. Thurber had two brothers, William and Robert. One day while playing "William Tell" with them as youngsters, Thurber lost the sight in one eye when an arrow pierced it. Ultimately, he would go bl
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