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James Thurber (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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James Thurber’s more than twenty published volumes include plays, stories, sketches, essays, verse, fables, fairy tales for adults, reminiscences, biography, drawings, and cartoons.
Achievements
James Thurber’s writings are widely known and admired in English-speaking countries and his drawings have a world following. He has been compared with James Joyce in his command of and playfulness with English, and he invites comparison with most of his contemporaries,...
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- James Thurber (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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See Also
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Catbird Seat, The (Short Stories) -
My Life and Hard Times (Masterplots Classics) -
Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The (Short Stories) -
13 Clocks, The (Science Fiction) -
Thurber Letters, The (Literary Annual Reviews) -
White Deer, The (Science Fiction) -
Years with Ross, The (Nonfiction) -
Fable Tradition, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction) -
Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
