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Thurber Country

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Simon & Schuster (Paper)Description: 276 pagesISBN:
  • 9780671459307
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 814.52
LOC classification:
  • PS3539.H94
Summary: First published in 1949, Thurber Country remains a benchmark of satirical writing. Now, in this Simon & Schuster Classic Edition, is the original book, with a new introduction by Lillian Ross. The fact that James Thurber wrote this collection of pieces is, of course, a publisher's blurb in itself. It therefore is necessary simply to give the reader some factual idea of what sort of pieces they are. There are 26 of them. Most (including "File and Forget," a correspondence with his publishers which is not recommended to people who have a tendency to get bad hiccoughs from too much laughing) have already appeared in The New Yorker. Seven pieces have appeared in The Bermudian and have therefore never been published in this country. You will find Thurber Country a place not difficult to enter, but hard to leave.
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First published in 1949, Thurber Country remains a benchmark of satirical writing. Now, in this Simon & Schuster Classic Edition, is the original book, with a new introduction by Lillian Ross. The fact that James Thurber wrote this collection of pieces is, of course, a publisher's blurb in itself. It therefore is necessary simply to give the reader some factual idea of what sort of pieces they are. There are 26 of them. Most (including "File and Forget," a correspondence with his publishers which is not recommended to people who have a tendency to get bad hiccoughs from too much laughing) have already appeared in The New Yorker. Seven pieces have appeared in The Bermudian and have therefore never been published in this country. You will find Thurber Country a place not difficult to enter, but hard to leave.

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