Secret Lives Of Walter Mitty And Of James Thurber

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443435619
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty written by James Thurber and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered forty-year-old man, drives into Connecticut with his wife for their weekly shopping trip. Tired of his drab, schedule-driven life, Walter escapes into five elaborate daydreams, and finally becomes the hero he always hoped to be. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” was originally published in a 1939 issue of The New Yorker. It is considered to be an American classic, and author James Thurber’s masterpiece. It has been adapted for film, first in 1947, and most recently for the 2013 feature film starring Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short stories collection to build your digital library.

Author : Leon Carr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Walter Mitty written by Leon Carr and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780141182919
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces written by James Thurber and published by Penguin Modern Classics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Thurber is universally admired for his hilarious sense of humour, off-beat imagination and unique take on the world around him. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, in which a young man's fantasies have a much more powerful hold on him than reality, is probably his best-known prose work, but this selection also contains wonderfully entertaining essays, poetry and cartoons gathered from all of Thurber's collections. Poking fun at his own weaknesses and those of other people (and dogs) - the English teacher who looked only at figures of speech, the Airedale who refused to include him in the family, the botany lecturer who despaired of him totally - James Thurber is essential reading for everyone who loves to laugh.

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : The Creative Company
ISBN 13 : 9781583415863
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Walter Mitty written by James Thurber and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A henpecked husband copes with the frustrations of his dull life by imagining he is a fearless airplane pilot, a brilliant doctor, and other dashing figures.

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156623445
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My World - and Welcome to it written by James Thurber and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1942 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of humor and satire covers topics from baseball to Macbeth.

Author : James Thurber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780860847885
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Lives of Walter Mitty and of James Thurber written by James Thurber and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Thurber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writings and Drawings written by James Thurber and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers previously uncollected cartoons and humorous stories.

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life and Hard Times written by James Thurber and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Life and Hard Times" by James Thurber. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Anastasia Deibert
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638006816
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” written by Anastasia Deibert and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Stuttgart (Institut für Literaturwissenschaft - Neuere Englische Literatur), course: HS Short Story and Short Story Theory, language: English, abstract: In the following pages I want to focus on James Thurber’s famous short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” which was first published in 1939 in the magazine The New Yorker. Thurber tells the story of a Walter Mitty, a man who lives in a dream world to escape from the routines and humiliations which he suffers in everyday life. Today the name “Walter Mitty” also exists in the English language and is used for people who are daydreaming and not paying attention to the real world. Walter Mitty became an archetypal American figure. By reason of the structure of the short story and “Thurber’s own narrative style – economical, lightly ironic, and wonderfully expressive” (Holmes 218) it seems that this short story can be seen as a garden path story. The expression “to lead someone up the garden path” means “to deliberately deceive someone”. Manfred Jahn analysed this short story with respect to his garden path short story theory. Can “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” generally be regarded as a garden path story? What is of particular interest is whether the reader is misled by Thurber’s narrative technique especially at the beginning of the story. What are the reasons for Walter Mitty’s escapist daydreams and how is Mitty’s character presented in the story? Firstly, I will describe the garden path phenomenon and applied to “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” I will analyse the beginning of the short story. In addition, I will name some hints where the reader realises Walter Mitty’s various daydream episodes. In the next chapter I will concentrate on the story’s two narrative levels. First of all, I will describe Mitty’s development in the course of his daydreams and then I will take a look on the real Walter Mitty. Moreover, I will briefly try to find similarities between James Thurber and Walter Mitty. Afterwards, James Thurber’s narrative style and his sense of humour will be presented. The conclusion will comprise the main points and some suggestions for further discussion.

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780152325442
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Quillow written by James Thurber and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic fairytale about a giant who is outwitted by a toymaker.