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Foreword | |
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Preface: My Fifty Years with James Thurber | |
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Stories Not Collected Before in Book Form | |
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The Lady on 142 | |
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The Catbird Seat | |
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Memoirs of a Drudge | |
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The Cane in the Corridor | |
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The Secret Life of James Thurber | |
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Recollections of the Gas Buggy | |
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from My World and Welcome to It | |
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What Do You Mean it Was Brillig? | |
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | |
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Here Lies Miss Groby | |
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The Man Who Hated Moonbaum | |
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The Macbeth Murder Mystery | |
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A Ride with Olympy | |
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from Let Your Mind Alone! | |
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Destructive Forces in Life | |
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Sex Ex Machina | |
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The Breaking up of the Winships | |
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The Admiral on the Wheel | |
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A Couple of Hamburgers | |
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Bateman Comes Home | |
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Doc Marlowe | |
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The Wood Duck | |
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from The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze | |
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The Departure of Emma Inch | |
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There's an Owl in my Room | |
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The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery | |
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Snapshot of a Dog | |
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Something to Say | |
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The Curb in the Sky | |
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The Black Magic of Barney Haller | |
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If Grant had been Drinking at Appomattox | |
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The Remarkable Case of Mr. Bruhl | |
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The Luck of Jad Peters | |
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The Greatest Man in the World | |
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The Evening's at Seven | |
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One is a Wanderer | |
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My Life and Hard Times, complete | |
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Preface to a Life | |
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The Night the Bed Fell | |
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The Car We had to Push | |
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The Day the Dam Broke | |
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The Night the Ghost Got in | |
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More Alarms at Night | |
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A Sequence of Servants | |
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The Dog that Bit People | |
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University Days | |
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Draft Board Nights | |
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A Note at the End | |
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from Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated | |
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The Birds and the Foxes | |
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The Little Girl and the Wolf | |
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The Scotty Who Knew too much | |
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The Very Proper Gander | |
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The Bear Who Let it alone | |
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The Shrike and the Chipmunks | |
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The Seal Who Became Famous | |
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The Crow and the Oriole | |
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The Moth and the Star | |
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The Glass in the Field | |
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The Rabbits Who Caused all the Trouble | |
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The Owl Who was God | |
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The Unicorn in the Carden | |
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Excelsior | |
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"Oh When I was ..." | |
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Barbara Frietchie | |
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The Sands O'Dee | |
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Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight | |
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from The Owl in the Attic | |
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The Pet Department | |
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from The Seal in the Bedroom | |
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"With You I have Known Peace, Lida, and Now You Say You're Going Crazy" | |
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"Are You the Young Man That Bit My Daughter?" | |
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"Here's a Study for You, Doctor--He Faints" | |
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"Mamma Always Gets Sore and Spoils the Game for Everybody" | |
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"For the Last Time--You and Your Horsie Get Away from Me and Stay Away!" | |
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"Well, What's Come Over You Suddenly?" | |
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"Have You People Got Any .38 Cartridges?" | |
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"The Father Belonged to Some People Who Were Driving Through in a Packard" | |
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"Stop Me!" | |
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"I Don't Know. George Got It Somewhere" | |
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"All Right, Have It Your Way--You Heard a Seal Bark" | |
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The Bloodhound and the Bug | |
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from Men, Women and Dogs | |
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"This is Not the Real Me You're Seeing, Mrs. Clisbie" | |
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"What's Come Over You Since Friday, Miss Schemke?" | |
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"Hello, Darling--Woolgathering?" | |
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"It's a Naive Domestic Burgundy Without Any Breeding, But I Think You'll Be Amused by Its Presumption" | |
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"Oh, Doctor Conroy--Look!" | |
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"I'd Feel a Great Deal Easier If Her Husband Hadn't Gone to Bed" | |
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"Touche!" | |
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"And This Is Tom Weatherby, an Old Beau of Your Mother's. He Never Got to First Base" | |
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"Perhaps This Will Refresh Your Memory" | |
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"... And Keep Me a Normal, Healthy, American Girl" | |
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"It's Parkins, Sir; We're 'Aving a Bit of a Time Below Stairs" | |
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"Darling, I Seem to Have This Rabbit" | |
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"That's My First Wife Up There, and This Is the Present Mrs. Harris" | |
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"You're Not My Patient, You're My Meat, Mrs. Quist!" | |
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"She Has the True Emily Dickinson Spirit Except That She Gets Fed Up Occasionally" | |
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"I Said the Hounds of Spring Are on Winter's Traces--But Let It Pass, Let It Pass!" | |
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"For Heaven's Sake, Why Don't You Go Outdoors and Trace Something?" | |
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"I Don't Want Him to Be Comfortable If He's Going to Look Too Funny." | |
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"Yoo-hoo, It's Me and the Ape Man" | |
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"Look Out! Here They Come Again!" | |
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"You Wait Here and I'll Bring the Etchings Down" | |
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"Well, Who Made the Magic Go Out of Our Marriage--You or Me?" | |
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House and Woman | |
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"Well, If I Called the Wrong Number, Why Did You Answer the Phone?" | |
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"This Gentleman Was Kind Enough to See Me Home, Darling" | |
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"I Come From Haunts of Coot and Hern!" | |
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"Well, I'm Disenchanted, Too. We're All Disenchanted" | |
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"What Do You Want to Be Inscrutable for, Marcia?" | |
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"You Said a Moment Ago That Everybody You Look at Seems to Be a Rabbit. Now Just What Do You Mean by That, Mrs. Sprague?" | |
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"Why, I Never Dreamed Your Union Had Been Blessed With Issue!" | |
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"Have You Seen My Pistol, Honey-bun?" | |
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"It's Our Own Story Exactly! He Bold as a Hawk, She Soft as the Dawn" | |
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"You and Your Premonitions!" | |
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"All Right, All Right, Try It That Way! Go Ahead and Try It That Way!" | |
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"Well, It Makes a Difference to Me!" | |
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"There's No Use You Trying to Save Me, My Good Man" | |
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Man in Tree | |
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"What Have You Done With Dr. Millmoss?" | |
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The War Between Men and Women | |
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About James Thurber | |
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The Thurber Carnival, 1945 | |