My Life and Hard Times Author:James Thurber MY LIFE AND HARD TIMES is one of the most deeply humorous books of our century. Not a "Memoir" that takes into account the crumbling of empires, rather it talks "largely about small matters and smally about great affairs." Mostly it's about the wildly incredible things people do when they think they're acting with common sense. Yet after the ... more »laughter is finished, Thurber has done more than tickle your risibilities. He has quietly and unobtrusively, but permanently, deflated your false pride in the essential sanity and prudence of the human race.« less