The Thurber Carnival

James Thurber

• Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781773230726

James Thurber was one of the finest humorists of the twentieth century (and a crack cartoonist to boot). A bestseller upon its initial publication in 1945,  ''The Thurber Carnival '' captures the depth of his talent and the breadth of his wit. The stories compiled here, almost all of which first appeared in  The New Yorker, are from his uproarious and candid collection  My World and Welcome to It—including the American classic "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"—as well as from  The Owl in the Attic,  The Seal in the Bathroom, and  Men, Women and Dogs.

Table of contents

• PREFACE My Sixty Years with James Thurber
• 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 Footnotes to An Era for the Future Historian
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 Garden
• Excelsior By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• "Oh When I Was...,"[2] By A. E. Housman
• Barbara Frietchie By John Greenleaf Whittier
• The Sands o' Dee By Charles Kingsley
• Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight By Rose Hartwick Thorpe
• The Pet Department
• THE BLOODHOUND AND THE BUG
• THE WAR BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN