James Thurber (1894–1961)
Autor(a) de The Thurber Carnival
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Obras por James Thurber
Thurber's men, women, and dogs, a book of drawings with a preface by Dorothy Parker (1943) 190 exemplares
Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor, and Himself (1989) — Autor — 126 exemplares
People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration Of Drawings And Writings (1994) 59 exemplares
Thurber and Company: A New Collection of Drawings of Male and Female Animals Including the Human (1966) 49 exemplares
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber: v. 2 (1963) 40 exemplares
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber:Two Volume Set (1974) 39 exemplares
Selected Shorts: Timeless Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2005) 38 exemplares
Vintage Thurber: A Selection of the Best Writings and Drawings of James Thurber: v. 1 (1963) 35 exemplares
The James Thurber Audio Collection: Fables and Selected Stories by James Thurber (2011) 10 exemplares
Is Sex Necessary?, etc 3 exemplares
The Wood Duck [short story] 3 exemplares
Il più grand'uomo del mondo: racconti 3 exemplares
Love Is A Funny Business (Quick Reader 126) 3 exemplares
The Little Girl and the Wolf {short story} 3 exemplares
Interview with a Lemming [short story] 3 exemplares
The Night the Bed Fell 3 exemplares
Doc Marlowe [short story] 2 exemplares
超級神學講座 [錄影資料] = SuperDoc (Super Doctrine) seminar 2 exemplares
The years with Ross 2 exemplares
A Thurber garland 2 exemplares
The Scotty Who Knew Too Much {short story' 2 exemplares
The Departure of Emma Inch {short story} 2 exemplares
A Thurber Carnival 2 exemplares
You Could Look It Up 2 exemplares
Gezeichnete Parodien zu Balladen v. Friedrich Schiller, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir Walter Scott u. Alfred Lord… 2 exemplares
A Thurber Carnival (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 16] 1 exemplar
Thurber Carnival, Thw 1 exemplar
13 האורלוגין 1 exemplar
Further Fables of Our Times 1 exemplar
Trzynaście zegarów 1 exemplar
My World---And Welcome to It 1 exemplar
Memorable Quotations from James Thurber 1 exemplar
O cartaz de Mr. Martin 1 exemplar
My Life and Hard Times, etc 1 exemplar
The Rgurber Album 1 exemplar
Secret Life Of Walter Mitty And Other Play 1 exemplar
Der große kleine Spielzeugmacher 1 exemplar
Favole per il nostro tempo 1 exemplar
A Full Confession 1 exemplar
The Lady on 142 {short story} 1 exemplar
Memoirs of a Drudge {essay} 1 exemplar
The Secret Life of James Thurber {essay} 1 exemplar
The Macbeth Murder Mystery 1 exemplar
A Ride with Olympy {essay} 1 exemplar
The Shrike and the Chipmunks {short story} 1 exemplar
A Couple of Hamburgers {short story} 1 exemplar
The Hound and the Bug 1 exemplar
De tretten ure 1 exemplar
The Foolhardy Mouse and the Curious Cat 1 exemplar
La notte degli spiriti e altre storie 1 exemplar
James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times 1 exemplar
Sælen der blev berømt og andre historier 1 exemplar
[No title] 1 exemplar
The Great Quillow 1 exemplar
Zehn goldene Regeln für das Zusammenleben mit 100 warnenden Beispielen / Der Hund, der die Leute biß. Und andere… (1996) 1 exemplar
Thurbers Men Women & Dogs a Book of Drawings 1 exemplar
The Lady on the Bookcase 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 917 exemplares
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Contribuidor — 709 exemplares
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991) — Contribuidor — 565 exemplares
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Contribuidor — 245 exemplares
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Contribuidor — 103 exemplares
Cavalcade of comedy; 21 brilliant comedies from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward (1953) — Contribuidor — 96 exemplares
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuidor — 83 exemplares
The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Seven Unforgettable Stories (2002) — Contribuidor — 77 exemplares
Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Contribuidor — 67 exemplares
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Zoo 2000: Twelve Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy Beasts (1973) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Discovering Fiction Student's Book 1: A Reader of American Short Stories (2001) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (1945) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
The Defective Detective: Mystery Parodies by the Great Humorists (1992) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (1944) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Alexanders langes Leben, Stalins früher Tod und andere abwegige Geschichten. Erzählungen und Berichte aus… (1999) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
American Short Stories, Vol.5, The Twentieth Century (1957) — Autor, algumas edições — 11 exemplares
Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten (American Short Stories) (English and German Edition) (1956) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (1956) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Voor en na middernacht : vierendertig beroemde spook- en griezelverhalen (1949) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Reading in English for Students of English as a Second Language (1961) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Rex Lardner Selects the Best of Sports Fiction — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 1 (1953) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
14 American Masterpieces Vol.1 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Eleven American Stories — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Configurations: American Short Stories for the EFL Classroom, Advanced Level (1984) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Al pie del acantilado — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Behind the Wheel: Stories of Cars on Road and Track — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Thurber, James
- Nome legal
- Thurber, James Grover
- Data de nascimento
- 1894-12-08
- Data de falecimento
- 1961-11-02
- Localização do túmulo
- Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Local de falecimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa da morte
- complications from pneumonia
- Locais de residência
- Washington, D.C., USA
Paris, France
New York, New York, USA
Columbus, Ohio, USA - Educação
- Ohio State University
- Ocupações
- cartoonist
author
playwright
reporter
code clerk - Organizações
- The New Yorker
U.S. Department of State - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Caldecott Medal (1944)
Membros
Discussions
Found: Kid’s book about a haunted castle em Name that Book (Novembro 2023)
Críticas
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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Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 154
- Also by
- 152
- Membros
- 16,550
- Popularidade
- #1,371
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 335
- ISBN
- 317
- Línguas
- 13
- Marcado como favorito
- 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?