The Thurber Carnival

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"This book contains a selection of the stories & drawings the old boy did in his prime, a period which extended roughly from the year Lindbergh flew the Atlantic to the day coffee was rationed. He presents this to his readers with his sincere best wishes for a happy new world."--Preface Saturday Review called it "one of the absolutely essential books of our time". A bestseller when published in 1945, the omnibus, most of which 1st appeared in The New Yorker, draws from such classics as My World & Welcome to It, My Life & Hard Times, Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated, The Owl in the Attic, The Seal in the Bedroom & Men, Women & Dogs. "It is time that we stopped thinking of James Thurber as a mere funny man for sophisticates & recognized him as an authentic American genius," wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Mr Thurber belongs in the great line of American humorists which includes Mark Twain & Ring Lardner." Foreword Preface 1 Stories not collected in book form 2 From My world & welcome to it 3 From Let your mind alone 4 From The middle aged man on the flying trapeze 5 My life & hard time, complete 6 From Fables of our time & Famous poems illustrated 7 From The owl in the attic 8 From The seal in the bedroom 9 From Men, women & dogs