Please take it and do not use your chloroform, as this is all I have.” Aunt Gracie Shoaf also had a burglar phobia, but she met it with more fortitude. The Thurber Carnival (Perennial Classics), James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (LOA #90) (Library of America), The 13 Clocks: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), James Thurber: 92 Stories (with Original Drawings), Is Sex Necessary? A joy to laugh out loud quietly while the world lies in wait for the next tragedy. “Get me out!” I think I had the nightmarish belief that I was entombed in a mine. Please try again. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. [1] It is considered his greatest work as he relates in bewildered deadpan prose the eccentric goings on of his family and the town beyond (Columbus, Ohio). 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. Quirky. He thought that mother had become, for no apparent reason, hysterical. The layout of the rooms and the disposition of their occupants is important to an understanding of what later occurred. At thankfully only 135 pages, including numerous drawings by the author, it didn’t make me laugh once, and I think Thurber would have been a very irritating man to be stuck in a lift with. I still love them and the strange drawings. Funny stories, imagination at the top. “Gugh!” gasped Briggs, floundering in his camphor. For an easy, lighthearted read, this book is well worth the money and will likely become a favorite for your own private library. These items are shipped from and sold by different sellers. The fact that she never missed anything was to her no proof to the contrary. She was confident that burglars had been getting into her house every night for forty years. My bed was an iron cot, one of those affairs which are made wide enough to sleep on comfortably only by putting up, flat with the middle section, the two sides which ordinarily hang down like the sideboards of a drop-leaf table. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Ad Choices. --This text refers to an alternate. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Please try again. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Some nights she threw them all, some nights only a couple of pairs. My Life and Hard Times is the 1933 autobiography of James Thurber. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. Please try again. There was a problem loading your book clubs. -- Ogden Nash"Possibly the shortest and most elegant autobiography ever written." 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. (It was my mother who, in recalling the scene later, first referred to it as “the night the bed fell on your father.”). Find the best new books each week sorted by format and genre, including fiction, nonfiction, advice & how-to, graphic novels, children's books, and more. If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. We had visiting us at this time a nervous first cousin of mine named Briggs Beall, who believed that he was likely to cease breathing when he was asleep. “I’m all right!” He still believed that it was his own closeness to death that was worrying mother. --This text refers to an alternate, Fast, FREE delivery, video streaming, music, and much more. When she went to bed she piled, where she could get at them handily, all the shoes there were about her house. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 1/1/20) and Your California Privacy Rights.
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