Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 42 results for “james thurber”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    by James Thurber ...
    American humorist James Thurber’s classic short story is about a man who escapes the tedium of his mundane life by retreating into his vivid imagination. This title features a new introduction by Rosemary A. Thurber, James Thurber’s daughter, as well as a selection of Thurber drawings. ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (LOA #90)

    by James Thurber ...
    A comprehensive collection of the American humorist’s best work—including “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”—plus original drawings and a chronology of Thurber’s own troubled lifeJames Thurber, whimsical fantasist and deadpan chronicler of everyday absurdities, brought American humor into the 20th century. His comic persona, a modern city-dweller whose zaniest flights of free association are tinged ... Read more

    $45.19 CAD

  • The Thurber Carnival

    by James Thurber ...
    "An authentic American genius . . . Mr. Thurber belongs in the great lines of American humorists that includes Mark Twain and Ring Lardner." — The Philadelphia InquirerJames Thurber's unique ability to convey the vagaries of life in a funny, witty, and often satirical way earned him accolades as one of the finest humorists of the twentieth century. A bestseller upon its initial publication in 1945 ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Classic Collection of James Thurber. Illustrated

    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Thurber Carnival, Let Your Mind Alone, The Years with Ross

    by James Thurber ...
    The Classic Collection of James Thurber gathers four of the author’s most iconic works into one beautifully illustrated volume, celebrating the wit, imagination, and sharp social insight that made Thurber one of America’s most beloved humorists. At the heart of the collection is “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, the timeless story of an ordinary man who escapes the dullness of everyday life ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • The Thurber Carnival. Illustrated

    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Catbird Seat, The Night the Bed Fell, and The Macbeth Murder Mystery and Others

    by James Thurber ...
    The Thurber Carnival is a delightful and essential collection of stories, essays, fables, and cartoons from one of America's greatest humorists, James Thurber. Blending sharp wit, absurdity, and subtle insight, this anthology showcases Thurber’s unique ability to find the comic—and often poignant—undertones in everyday life. Drawn from various stages of his career, the pieces in this volume ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • The Years with Ross

    by James Thurber ...
    From iconic American humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the magazine's unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross"Extremely entertaining. . . . life at The New Yorker emerges as a lovely sort of pageant of lunacy, of practical jokes, of feuds and foibles. It is an affectionate picture of scamps playing their games around a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collected Fables

    by James Thurber ...
    "These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us how human we really are, are completely uproarious." — Saturday Review of Literature"These fables are as cogent and necessary today as they were before and after the Great War when Thurber's plainspoken, satiric fables provided a way to speak out in an era of political suspiciousness, false hopes, and mistrust. These fables are, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

    Short Story

    by James Thurber ...
    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 ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Let Your Mind Alone

    by James Thurber ...
    A collection of humorous essays, accompanied by the author's own bizarre drawings, presenting Thurber's unremitting retort to the multitude of "self-help" books which were widespread in the 1930s and whose successors are still with us today. ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 13 Clocks

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by James Thurber ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    A giant of American humor makes his Penguin Classics debut with “probably the best book in the world” (Neil Gaiman, from the Introduction), in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring the original, full-color illustrationsThe hands of all thirteen clocks stand still in the gloomy castle on a lonely hill where a wicked Duke lives with his niece, the beautiful Princess Saralinda. The Duke fancies he has ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Fun of It

    Stories from The Talk of the Town

    by James Thurber, John Updike, E. B. White ...
    William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is today: a precise piece of journalism that always gets the story and has a little fun along the way.The Fun of It is the first anthology of ... Read more

    Was $7.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • The Wonderful O

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by James Thurber ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    Great American humorist James Thurber’s beloved, madcap, and eerily timely fairy tale about an island society robbed of the wonders of the letter O—in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring flaps, deckle-edged paper, and the original, full-color illustrationsLittlejack has a map that indicates the existence of a treasure on a far and lonely island, and Black has a ship to get there. So the two bad ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD