The Thurber Carnival

Name: The Thurber Carnival
Brand: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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James Thurber(Autor*in)

Harper Perennial Modern Classics (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 16. April 2024

448 Seiten

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Intro
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Preface: My Fifty Years with James Thurber
I. Stories Not Collected Before in Book Form:
The Lady on 142
The Catbird Seat
Memoirs of a Drudge
The Cane in the Corridor
The Secret Life of James Thurber
Recollections of the Gas Buggy
II. From My World and Welcome to It:
What Do You Mean It Was Brillig?
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Here Lies Miss Groby
The Man Who Hated Moonbaum
The Macbeth Murder Mystery
A Ride With Olympy
III. From Let Your Mind Alone!:
Destructive Forces in Life
Sex Ex Machina
The Breaking Up of the Winships
The Admiral on the Wheel
A Couple of Hamburgers
Bateman Comes Home
Doc Marlowe
The Wood Duck
IV. From The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze:
The Departure of Emma Inch
There's an Owl in My Room
The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery
Snapshot of a Dog
Something to Say
The Curb in the Sky
The Black Magic of Barney Haller
If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox
The Remarkable Case of Mr. Bruhl
The Luck of Jad Peters
The Greatest Man in the World
The Evening's at Seven
One is a Wanderer
V. My Life and Hard Times, complete:
Preface to a Life
The Night the Bed Fell
The Car We Had to Push
The Day the Dam Broke
The Night the Ghost Got In
More Alarms at Night
A Sequence of Servants
The Dog That Bit People
University Days
Draft Board Nights
A Note at the End
VI. From Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated:
The Birds and the Foxes
The Little Girl and the Wolf
The Scotty Who Knew Too Much
The Very Proper Gander
The Bear Who Let It Alone
The Shrike and the Chipmunks
The Seal Who Became Famous
The Crow and the Oriole
The Moth and the Star
The Glass in the Field
The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble
The Owl Who Was God
The Unicorn in the Carden
Excelsior
"Oh When I was . . ."
Barbara Frietchie
The Sands o' Dee
Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight
VII. From The Owl in the Attic:
The Pet Department
VIII. From The Seal in the Bedroom:
"With You I Have Known Peace, Lida, and Now You Say You're Going Crazy"
"Are You the Young Man That Bit My Daughter?"
"Here's a Study for You, Doctor-He Faints"
"Mamma Always Gets Sore and Spoils the Game for Everybody"
"For the Last Time-You and Your Horsie Get Away from Me and Stay Away!"
"Well, What's Come Over You Suddenly?"
"Have You People Got Any .38 Cartridges?"
"The Father Belonged to Some People Who Were Driving Through in a Packard"
"Stop Me!"
"I Don't Know. George Got It Somewhere"
"All Right, Have It Your Way-You Heard a Seal Bark"
The Bloodhound and the Bug
IX. From Men, Women and Dogs:
"This is Not the Real Me You're Seeing, Mrs. Clisbie"
"What's Come Over You Since Friday, Miss Schemke?"
"Hello, Darling-Woolgathering?"
"It's a Na?ve Domestic Burgundy Without Any Breeding, But I Think You'll Be Amused by Its Presumption"
"Oh, Doctor Conroy-Look!"
"I'd Feel a Great Deal Easier If Her Husband Hadn't Gone to Bed"
"Touché!"
"And This Is Tom Weatherby, an Old Beau of Your Mother's. He Never Got to First Base"
"Perhaps This Will Refresh Your Memory"
". . . And Keep Me a Normal, Healthy, American Girl"
"It's Parkins, Sir
We're 'Aving a Bit of a Time Below Stairs"
"Darling, I Seem to Have This Rabbit"
"That's My First Wife Up There, and This Is the Present Mrs. Harris"
"You're Not My Patient, You're My Meat, Mrs. Quist!"
"She Has the True Emily Dickinson Spirit Except That She Gets Fed Up Occasionally"
"I Said the Hounds of Spring Are on Winter's Traces-But Let It Pass, Let It Pass!"
"For Heaven's Sake, Why Don't You Go Outdoors and Trace Something?"
"I Don't Want Him to Be Comfortable If He's Going to Look Too Funny."
"Yoo-hoo, It's Me and the Ape Man"
"Look Out! Here They Come Again!"
"You Wait Here and I'll Bring the Etchings Down"
"Well, Who Made the Magic Go Out of Our Marriage-You or Me?"
House and Woman
"Well, If I Called the Wrong Number, Why Did You Answer the Phone?"
"This Gentleman Was Kind Enough to See Me Home, Darling"
"I Come From Haunts of Coot and Hern!"
"Well, I'm Disenchanted, Too. We're All Disenchanted"
"What Do You Want to Be Inscrutable for, Marcia?"
"You Said a Moment Ago That Everybody You Look at Seems to Be a Rabbit. Now Just What Do You Mean by That, Mrs. Sprague?"
"Why, I Never Dreamed Your Union Had Been Blessed With Issue!"
"Have You Seen My Pistol, Honey-bun?"
"It's Our Own Story Exactly! He Bold as a Hawk, She Soft as the Dawn"
"You and Your Premonitions!"
"All Right, All Right, Try It That Way! Go Ahead and Try It That Way!"
"Well, It Makes a Difference to Me!"
"There's No Use You Trying to Save Me, My Good Man"
Man in Tree
"What Have You Done With Dr. Millmoss?"
The War Between Men and Women
About James Thurber
The Thurber Carnival, 1945
Also by James Thurber
Copyright
About the Publisher

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