| My Life and Hard Times Contributor(s): Thurber, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060933089 ISBN-13: 9780060933081 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1999 Annotation: This hugely funny autobiographical memoir that takes into account the crumbling of empires, talks "largely about small matters and smally about great affairs". Mostly it is about the wildly incredible things people do when they think they are acting sensibly. Cartoons. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers - Humor | Topic - Celebrity & Popular Culture |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 99015618 |
| Lexile Measure: 1050 |
| Series: Perennial Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.33" W x 8" (0.26 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Thurber is...a landmark in American humor...he is the funniest artist who ever lived." -- New Republic Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that defined his famous sketches and writings. In My Life and Hard times, first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful chaos and frustrations of family, boyhood, youth, odd dogs, recalcitrant machinery, and the foibles of human nature. |
Contributor Bio(s): Thurber, James: - James Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1894. Famous for his humorous writings and illustrations, he was a staff member of The New Yorker for more than thirty years. He died in 1961. |