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My Life and Hard Times Paperback - 1999

by James Thurber

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.


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"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.

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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.

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  • Title My Life and Hard Times
  • Author James Thurber
  • Series Perennial Classics
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
  • Date 1999-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780060933081 / 0060933089
  • Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.33 x 0.35 in (20.32 x 13.54 x 0.89 cm)
  • Reading level 1050
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Cartoonists - United States, Humorists, American - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99015618
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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