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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.
Thurber Country : A Collection of Pieces about Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species
by James Thurber; Lillian RossFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-07-22
Publisher(s): Simon & Schuster
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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.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| What's So Funny? | p. 1 |
| The Figgerin' of Aunt Wilma | p. 9 |
| The White Rabbit Caper | p. 23 |
| Back Home Again | p. 35 |
| My Own Ten Rules for a Happy Marriage | p. 41 |
| What a Lovely Generalization! | p. 52 |
| The Interview | p. 58 |
| Lady in a Trap | p. 75 |
| File and Forget | p. 83 |
| The Case Book of James Thurber | p. 100 |
| The Case of Dimity Ann | p. 106 |
| Look at That Darling Thing! | p. 121 |
| Do You Want to Make Something Out of It? | p. 127 |
| Take Her Up Tenderly | p. 138 |
| The Girls in the Closet | p. 143 |
| A Final Note on Chanda Bell | p. 151 |
| There's a Time for Flags | p. 165 |
| A Friend of the Earth | p. 177 |
| The American Literary Scene | p. 189 |
| Teacher's Pet | p. 199 |
| Shake Hands with Birdey Doggett | p. 213 |
| What Cocktail Party? | p. 219 |
| Joyeux Noel, Mr. Durning | p. 231 |
| See No Weevil | p. 253 |
| The Pleasure Cruise, and How to Survive It | p. 259 |
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