The Thurber Carnival

Name: The Thurber Carnival
Author: James Thurber

by James Thurber

Collection of Thurber's humorous essays, stories, and illustrations

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James Thurber

James Thurber was one of America's most beloved humorists, whose comic essays and stories for The New Yorker captured the anxieties of middle-class American life with gentle absurdism. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is among the most famous American short stories.

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