My Life And Hard Times

Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that defined his famous sketches and writings. In My Life and Hard times, first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful chaos and frustrations of family, boyhood, youth odd dogs, recalcitrant machinery, and the foibles of human nature.

James Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1894. Famous for his humorous writings and illustrations, he was a staff member of The New Yorker for more than thirty years. He died in 1961.

Introduction

xi

John K. Hutchens

Preface to a Life

xix

The Night the Bed Fell

3

(8)

The Car We Had to Push

11

(10)

The Day the Dam Broke

21

(11)

The Night the Ghost Got In

32

(8)

More Alarms at Night

40

(6)

A Sequence of Servants

46

(8)

The Dog That Bit People

54

(10)

University Days

64

(11)

Draft Board Nights

75

(10)

A Note at the End

85

(4)

Afterword

89

(4)

Russell Baker

About James Thurber

93

(10)

My Life and Hard Times, 1933

103

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My Life And Hard Times

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