Reading List: 28-Sep-06
I’m renewing an old acquaintanceship with one of my favorite authors, and one of the classic American collections of all time:
Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
Hardback: 443 pages
Publisher: Modern Library (1994)
ISBN: 0-679-60089-2
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #290,790 in Books
Source: Contra Costa County Library
About this book, Amazon.com wrote:
‘After the chuckles and amidst the chortles, the first-time reader of The Thurber Carnival is bound to utter a discreetly voiced “Huh?” Like Cracker Jacks, there are surprises inside James Thurber’s delicious 1945 smorgasbord of essays, stories, and sketches. This festival is, surprises and all, a collection of earlier collections (mostly), including, among others, gems from My World—and Welcome to It, Let Your Mind Alone!, and The Middle Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze. Needless to say, there are also numerous cartoons that, by themselves, are worth the price of admission. While redoubling Thurber’s deserved reputation as a laugh-out-loud humorist and teller-of-gentle-tales, it reintroduces him as a thinker-of-thoughts.‘
—Amazon.com
There are fabulous nuggets in this collection and the writing is still just as wonderful today as it was in its day. ★
• 183 Words written by Steve @ 11:41 | 28-Sep-06 in Reading •