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James Thurber is the author of Sammlung (1988), The Middle-aged Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935), The Book of Lester (2011), Fábulas reunidas (2025), Los 13 relojes (2010).

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The Middle-aged Man on the Flying Trapeze

The Middle-aged Man on the Flying Trapeze
Many of his short stories are humorous fictional memoirs from his life, but he also wrote darker material. The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze features several short stories with a tense undercurrent of marital discord. The book was published the year of his divorce and remarriage.

The Book of Lester

release date: Oct 01, 2011
The Book of Lester
At 19 Lester John was an Olympic hopeful with all of the promise in the world. One accident took it all away. 11 years later he is tortured by the physical and mental pain of losing the only thing he ever wanted. Hung over, he stumbles into work Monday morning as his supervisor calls him into her office. To his surprise she gives him a week off to answer two questions, "Do you find any sense of accomplishment from your job and are you satisfied with your life?" The catch: she hands him a small book that has the power to give him his dreams back. Meanwhile, his best friend Jerry Humberger is on the brink of creating the perfect marijuana plant called, "SUPER-WEED" that will revolutionize the drug industry. Friendships will be tested as these two factory workers in rural Pennsylvania will both stumble upon discoveries that will put them on opposite sides of a hidden war. A novel of supernatural suspense and a love triangle that could make one man the most powerful person in the world.

Fábulas reunidas

release date: Dec 23, 2025
Fábulas reunidas
James Thurber ha sido llamado «uno de los más grandes humoristas del mundo» por Alistair Cook de The Atlantic y «una de las grandes instituciones norteamericanas» por Stanley Walker del New York Herald Tribune , y pocas obras revelan su genio de manera tan poderosa como sus fábulas. Eternamente entretenido y soberbiamente satírico, Thurber señala las idiosincrasias de la vida con frivolidad verbal, una perspicacia hilarante, astucia política y, por supuesto, con moralejas peculiares y memorables. Inéditas en español, los lectores pueden deleitarse con ochenta y cinco fábulas del más importante humorista del siglo xx reunidas por primera vez en una sola antología. Aquí, en Fábulas reunidas, un libro esencial para lectores de todas las edades, se conjuntan las Fábulas para nuestros días, Más fábulas para nuestros días y Fábulas para otros días —diez fábulas nunca antes reunidas, ilustradas por diez artistas contemporáneos, entre quienes se incluyen Seymour Chwast, Mark Ulriksen, Laurie Rosenwald y R. O. Blechman. Los temas que ocuparon a Thurber en todos sus libros se retoman y destilan en las fábulas con una autoridad madurada: el complejo trayecto del amor; la amargura de la esperanza perdida; la lengua falsa y nuestra pérdida de control sobre el lenguaje; la desconfianza y la sospecha; la propagación del odio; la fragilidad de la paz. Estas fábulas son, en verdad, para nuestros días. «Todo deporte tiene a su "más grande", a su "mejor de todos los tiempos": Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali, Jack Nicklaus, Pelé, Roger Federer. El deporte de crear caricaturas, fábulas y curiosos ensayos que nos hacen doblarnos de la risa tiene a Thurber. Es, y tal vez siempre será, "el mejor"». Stephen Fry «Aquí yacen grandes palabras y líneas llenas de ingenio y sabiduría... Qué agradecido estoy de que mi padre me haya leído a Thurber; de otro modo, no tendría manera de pasar el tiempo hasta que nuestras pesadillas salgan disparadas por la ventana». Elvis Costello

The Greatest Man in the World: Also the Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Greatest Man in the World: Also the Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Contains two of the humorist''s short stories: the story of aviator Smurch, an amusing satire on the "perilous heights of fame," and Walter Mitty, a man who endures his ordinary life by escaping into fantasy.

My Life and Hard Times & The Owl in the Attic

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Many Moons

release date: May 01, 2016
Many Moons
A new edition of the Traditional Chinese edition of "Many Moons," winner of the 1944 Caldecott Medal winner. Princess Lenore asked for the moon, and a clever court jester presented her with it. The very buoyant illustrations were done by Louis Slobodkin. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Ma chienne de vie

release date: Nov 05, 2020

Τα 13 ρολόγια

release date: Jan 01, 2018

Jam with my Bread. Being ventures in story and verse together with 14 paraphrases ... of James Thurber's Fables for our Time ... With ... decorations by Richard E. Clarke

The Thurber Carnival. Written and illustrated by J. Thurber. (Abridged edition.).

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