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BK

3rd ed.

New York : Library of America, c1996

1004 s. : il.

ISBN 1-883011-22-1 (váz.)

The Library of America ; [vol.] 90

Obsahuje ilustrace, autorovu chronologii, poznámky

Thurber, James (prozaik a publicista am., 1894-1961) - dílo - výbory

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from Is Sex Necessary? (1929) // The Nature of the American Male: A Study of Pedestalism ...3 // The Lilies-and-Bluebird Delusion ...21 // from The Owl in the Attic (1931) // Mr. Monroe Holds the Fort ...33 // The Pet Department ...38 // The Seal in the Bedroom (1932) // Women and Men ...59 // The Bloodhound and the Bug ...83 // The Race of Life ...85 // Miscellany ...104 // The Bloodhound and the Hare ...118 // Tennis ...119 // Parties ...122 // The Collapse of Civilization ...126 // My Life and Hard Times (1933) // Preface to a Life ...137 // The Night the Bed Fell ...141 // The Car We Had to Push ...J48 // The Day the Dam Broke ...156 // The Night the Ghost Got In ...163 // More Alarms at Night ...169 // A Sequence of Servants ...174 // The Dog That Bit People ...181 // University Days ...188 // Draft Board Nights ...J96 // A Note at the End ...204 // from The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) // The Departure of Emma Inch ...209 // There’s an Owl in My Room ...215 // The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery ...219 // A Preface to Dogs ...223 // The Private Life of Mr. Bidwell ...227 // Mr. Preble Gets Rid of His Wife ...232 // A Portrait of Aunt Ida ...237 // The Luck of Jad Peters ...242 // I Went to Sullivant ...247 // If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox. . . . 253 // How to See a Bad Play ...257 // The Funniest Man You Ever Saw ...262 // The Black Magic of Barney Haller ...267 // Something to Say ...272 // Snapshot of a Dog ...279 // The Evening’s at Seven ...284 // The Greatest Man in the World ...287

// One Is a Wanderer ...296 // A Box to Hide In ...304 // from Let Tour Mind Alone! (1937) // Let Your Mind Alone! // Pythagoras and the Ladder ...309 // Destructive Forces in Life ...315 // The Case for the Daydreamer ...322 // A Dozen Disciplines ...327 // How to Adjust Yourself to Your Work ...332 // Anodynes for Anxieties ...339 // The Conscious vs. The Unconscious ...345 // Sex ex Machina ...352 // Sample Intelligence Test ...359 // Miscellaneous Mentation ...364 // The Breaking Up of the Winships ...371 // Nine Needles ...377 // A Couple of Hamburgers ...381 // Aisle Seats in the Mind ...386 // Mrs. Phelps ...390 // Wild Bird Hickok and His Friends ...395 // Doc Marlowe ...400 // The Admiral on the Wheel ...406 // The Last Flower (1939) ...411 // from Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940) // The Mouse Who Went to the Country ...447 // The Little Girl and the Wolf ...449 // The Two Turkeys ...450 // The Tiger Who Understood People ...451 // The Fairly Intelligent Fly ...453 // The Lion Who Wanted to Zoom ...455 // The Very Proper Gander ...457 // The Moth and the Star ...459 // The Shrike and the Chipmunks ...460 // The Seal Who Became Famous ...463 // The Hunter and the Elephant ...465 // The Scotty Who Knew Too Much ...467 // The Bear Who Let It Alone ...469 // The Owl Who Was God ...470 // The Sheep in Wolfs Clothing ...473 // The Stork Who Married a Dumb Wife ...475 // The Green Isle in the Sea ...477 // The Crow and the Oriole ...478 // The Elephant Who Challenged the World. . . . 480 // The

Bird and the Foxes ...483 // The Courtship of Arthur and A1 ...485 // The Hen Who Wouldn’t Fly ...487 // The Glass in the Field ...489 // The Tortoise and the Hare ...491 // The Patient Bloodhound ...492 // The Unicorn in the Garden ...493 // The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble. . . . 495 // The Hen and the Heavens ...497 // Excelsior ...498 // Lochinvar ...504 // Curfew Must Not Ring To-Night ...510 // Barbara Frietchie ...517 // from My World—And Webome To It (1942) // The Whip-Poor-Will ...527 // The Macbeth Murder Mystery ...536 // The Man Who Hated Moonbaum ...540 // The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ...545 // Interview with a Lemming ...551 // You Could Look It Up ...553 // The Gentleman in 916 ...568 // The Letters of James Thurber ...571 // Here Lies Miss Groby ...574 // A Ride with Olympy ...577 // from Men, Women and Dogs (1943) // Selected Cartoons ...587 // The Masculine Approach ...613 // The War Between Men and Women ...623 // from The Thurber Carnival (1945) // The Catbird Seat ...635 // The Cane in the Corridor ...645 // from The Beast in Me and Other Animals (1948) // The Princess and the Tin Box ...655 // The Lady on the Bookcase ...657 // A Call on Mrs. Forrester ...666 // A New Natural History ...672 // The 13 Clocks (1950) ...691 // from The Thurber Album (1952) // Daguerreotype of a Lady ...729 // Lavender with a Difference ...745 // from Thurber Country (1953) // File and Forget ...761 // Do You Want to Make Something Out of It? . . . . 772 // A Final Note on Chanda Bell ...779 // Teacher’s

Pet ...788 // from Thurber s dogs (1955) // An Introduction ...799 // from Further Fables for Our Time (1956) // The Bluebird and His Brother ...807 // The Lover and His Lass ...809 // The Bachelor Penguin and the Virtuous Mate ... 811 // The Peacelike Mongoose ...814 // The Trial of the Old Watchdog ...816 // from Alarms and Diversions (1957) // The First Time I Saw Paris ...821 // from The Tears with Ross (1958) // A Dime a Dozen ...837 // The First Years ...850 // Every Tuesday Afternoon ...866 // The Talk of the Town ...888 // Miracle Men ...909 // "Sex Is an Incident" ...927 // Uncollected Pieces // An American Romance (1927) ...943 // A Visit from St. Nicholas (1927) ...945 // Tom the Young Kidnapper, or, Pay Up and Live // (1933) ...948 // How to Relax While Broadcasting (1934) ...953 // E.B.W. (1938) ...956 // from I Believe (1939) ...962 // I Break Everything I Touch (1941) ...968 // Chronology ...975 // Note on the Texts ...985 // Acknowledgments ...993 // Notes ...995