{"title":"Books by James Thurber","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780241282618","title":"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty","description":"\u003cp\u003eWalter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary day dreams - in which the life he leads is one of excitement and even adventure, in which he - a weary, put upon middle-aged man - is the hero of his own story. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  A man can dream, can't he?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty\u003c\/i\u003e is just one of the brilliant humorous and witty stories written by James Thurber and collected here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201525022898,"sku":"9780241282618","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241282618.jpg?v=1786012812"},{"product_id":"9780141395975","title":"The Thurber Carnival","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', collected in this classic anthology.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection brings together the best of James Thurber's brilliantly funny, eccentric and anarchic writings. It includes his most famous work, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty\u003c\/i\u003e, in which an ordinary man's fantasies have a more powerful hold on him than reality, as well as essays, poetry and cartoons gathered from all of Thurber's collections. Making fun of his own weaknesses and those of other people (and dogs) - the English teacher who looked only at figures of speech, the Airedale who refused to include him in the family, the botany lecturer who despaired of him totally - James Thurber is a true original, whose off-beat imagination shows us everyday life from a different angle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Thurber was born in 1894 at Columbus, Ohio, where, as he once said, so many awful things happened to him. After university (Ohio State) he worked at the American Embassy in Paris from 1918 to 1920, and then turned to journalism. From 1927 onwards he was on the staff of the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and first published much of his work in it. He died in New York in 1961, and is today recognised as one of America's greatest twentieth-century humourists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the absolutely essential books of our time' \u003ci\u003eSaturday Review of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the great humorists' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224726712693,"sku":"9780141395975","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141395975_2ffc1f38-b8f7-48d0-a72d-6cbf6e27b959.jpg?v=1786011367"},{"product_id":"thurbers-dogs","title":"Thurber's Dogs","description":"'The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals,' writes James Thurber in the introduction to this collection of his best writings and drawings about the unpredictable and often inexplicable relationships between dogs and their men, women, and children. In two dozen stories and essays and six sequences of drawings, he honors the dogs, real and imaginary, that have populated his life and work. Included in Thurber's Dogs: Thurber's first published story features Josephine, the bull terrier that didn't seem to live up to a couple's expectations-until they regretted giving her away and resorted to extreme measures to get her back.; 'The Dog Who Bit People' remembers Muggs the Airedale, a dog that gave Thurber 'more trouble than all the other fifty-four or -five put together' yet somehow found an impeccable ally in Thurber's mother.; Several pieces recall the Scottish terrier Jeannie, another troublemaker, who delighted in wandering off and implanting herself in the homes, parties, and picnics of other families.; Rex, the noble pit bull from Thurber's childhood, developed the perplexing habit of bringing home large pieces of furniture and the gates from the gardens of neighbors' yards.; Blaze, an English mastiff, received preferential treatment on a military plane-and the resulting scandal dominated headlines and hilariously plunged Franklin Roosevelt's administration into crisis mode. Among the selections available only in this volume are essays defending the reputations of poodles and bloodhounds, two breeds Thurber believed were largely misunderstood and underappreciated. This iconic collection of Thurber's funniest and most delightful dog cartoons and writings is a must have for dog lovers.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57505047118197,"sku":"9781598538564","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781598538564.jpg?v=1786953983"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-james-thurber.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}