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James thurber s my life and hard times consists of nine vignettes that stand out in the memory of his youth. His comic persona, a modern citydweller whose zaniest flights of free. James thurber by james thurber overdrive rakuten overdrive. Those bewildering involvements for which my family had, i am afraid, a kind of unhappy genius, writes james thurber. The stories compiled here, almost all of which first appeared in the new yorker. His eyesight continued to decline and, by the 1950s, he was almost totally blind. A founding member of the new yorker staff, thurber wrote. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in the new yorker magazine and collected in his numerous books. The secret life of walter mitty is just one of the brilliant humorous and witty stories written by james thurber and collected here.
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