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Original Title:	My World And Welcome To It
ISBN:	0413144100 (ISBN13: 9780413144102)
Edition Language:	English

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James Thurber reported the world as he saw it. But what a world! Only Thurber could picture a seal peering nearsightedly over a headboard or a former husband crouched atop the armoire.

Titles in this selection, all vintage Thurber, hint at the range of his whimsy and include "Courtship Through the Ages," "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," "Interview with a Lemming" and "You Know How the French Are."

"Few writers have re-created daydreams and nightmares as Thurber re-creates them. He manages, somehow, to pin them while the nerve filaments are alive and wriggling...." (The New York Times)

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Title	:	My World And Welcome To It
Author	:	James Thurber
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	February 12th 1987 by Mandarin (first published 1942)
Categories	:	Humor. Fiction. Short Stories. Literature. American. Classics. Writing. Essays. 20th Century

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Ratings: 4.16 From 553 Users | 40 Reviews

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My World And Welcome To It by James Thurber (Harvest/HBJ Book 1942) (817). This is a collection of Thurber's short stories. It contains the incomparable tale The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. How that ten page short story was turned into two full-length feature movies is beyond me. My rating: 7/10, finished 1/13/17.

This may be the best short story collection ever published. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," "You Could Look It Up," and "A Sort of Genius" are classics. And "Memorial" and "The Man Who Hated Moonbaum" have stayed in my memory for over 45 years.

I love James Thurber!!!!

Thurber amuses me, in a quiet sort of way. Not doing-a-spit-take-with-my-own-spit sort of way. Just a little upturning on the lips on one side of the mouth.

3 and 1/2 ✨ Loved the short stories in Part 1, not so much in Part 2 where Thuber wrote while living in France.

A series of thoughtful and often slightly off-kilter vignettes. My favorite:Interview with a LemmingThe weary scientist, tramping through the mountains of northern Europe in the winter weather dropped his knapsack and prepared to sit on a rock."Careful, brother," said a voice."Sorry," murmured the scientist, noting with some surprise that a lemming which he had been about to sit on had addressed him. "It is a source of considerable astonishment to me," said the scientist, sitting down beside the

from the mind that brought you walter mitty.. a delightful collection of witty little stories. if you enjoy clever writing and pop culture references that all date back to at least 60 years ago (which i do!) you'll probably like this one.