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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces Author:James Thurber Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary day dreams - in which the life he leads is one of excitement and even adventure, in which he -- a weary, put upon middle-aged man -- is the hero of his own story. A man can dream, can't he? — About the author: James Thurber (1894-1961) created so... more »me thirty volumes of humor, fiction, children's books, cartoons, and essays in just about as many years. A founding member of The New Yorker staff, Thurber wrote and illustrated such enduring books as The Thurber Carnival and My Life and Hard Times, which have appeared in countless editions and dozens of languages throughout the world.« less