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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The night the ghost got in	James Thurber	The brief appearance of a ghost late at night begins a series of comic misunderstandings during which the narrator's mother throws a shoe through a neighbor's window and his grandfather shoots a poli…	OL14857096W
The Wonderful O	James Thurber,Marc Simont,Ransom Riggs,Joan Eloi Roca Martínez	Relates what happened when an evil sea captain banished the letter O from the island Ooroo.	OL14857112W
Credos and curios	James Thurber	21 previously uncollected pieces, including 3 short stories and 7 profiles of fellow-craftsmen. Foreword by Helen Thurber.	OL14857133W
Selected letters of James Thurber	James Thurber	Letters covering the period of 1935 to 1961, from Thurber's confident prime as a writer and artist, to his last days when blindness and infirmity failed to quench the exuberance of his spirit or his …	OL14857139W
The great Quillow	James Thurber	Quillow, a tiny toymaker, defeats a ferocious giant named Hunder and saves his town from destruction.	OL14857141W
Thurber's dogs	James Thurber	Stories and drawings by the longtime New Yorker humorist that celebrate man's best friend. Thurber's unpoetic dogs, with their expressive ears and baffled faces, surprise us with a vision of our slop…	OL14857156W
Many Moons	James Thurber	Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for the moon.	OL14857159W
Lanterns & lances	James Thurber	Contains 24 pieces in which the well-known humorist is largely concerned with the survival of our English language, currently being subjected to much erroneous use.	OL14857160W
Julius Caesar and Related Readings	W. H. Auden,Etheridge Knight,Rod Serling,James Thurber,Robert F. Kennedy,Tom Wicker,Suetonius,William Oscar Johnson,William Shakespeare	Julius Caesar / play by William Shakespeare -- Life of Caesar / biography by Suetonius; translated by Robert Graves -- Epitaph on a tyrant / poem by W.H. Auden -- News flash: political assassinati…	OL14916105W
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition	Edward Rowe Snow,Phyllis McGinley,John N. Morris,Sarah Kemble Knight,J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur,James Russell Lowell,Robert Frost,Edwin Arlington Robinson,T. S. Eliot,Carl Sandburg,Margaret Walker,Elinor Wylie,Sidney Lanier,Jonathan Edwards,Richard Eberhart,William Bradford,William Cullen Bryant,Oliver Wendell Holmes,Ernest Hemingway,Archibald MacLeish,Teresa Palomo Acosta,Katherine Anne Porter,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer,John Greenleaf Whittier,Sara Teasdale,Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson,Mark Twain,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Cotton Mather,Gary Soto,Dorothy Parker,Emily Dickinson,Denise Levertov,Ezra Pound,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,Abraham Lincoln,Anne Bradstreet,Mollie Dorsey Sanford,Kurt Vonnegut,Edith Wharton,Lewis Thomas,James Thurber,Annie Dillard,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Paul Laurence Dunbar,William Faulkner,William Carlos Williams,E. E. Cummings,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Carson McCullers,Adrienne Rich,Willa Cather,Maxine Kumin,Walt Whitman,Bernard Malamud,Arna Wendell Bontemps,Ray Bradbury,Leslie Silko,Gwendolyn Brooks,Randall Jarrell,David Wagoner,Claude McKay,Stephen Crane,Amiri Baraka,Sherwood Anderson,Richard Wilbur,John Steinbeck,N. Scott Momaday,Benjamin Franklin,Frederick Douglass,Langston Hughes,W. E. B. Du Bois,William Least Heat Moon,Robert E. Lee,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Updike,Wallace Stevens,William Stafford,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Chief Joseph,Tennessee Williams,James E. Miller, Jr.,Edgar Allan Poe,Howard Nemerov,Elizabeth Bishop,Amy Lowell,Francis Wright,Philip Morin Freneau,Jean Toomer,Thomas Paine,Galway Kinnell,Eudora Welty,Robert Hayden,Ralph Ellison,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Richard Wright,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,James Weldon Johnson,Isaac Asimov,Flannery O'Connor,Kate Chopin,James Masao Mitsui,James Baldwin,Margaret Fuller,James Fenimore Cooper,Karl Jay Shapiro,Patrick F. McManus,May Swenson,Edgar Lee Masters,Jim Wayne Miller,Robert Anderson,Countee Cullen,Sylvia Plath,Seattle Chief,Lorraine Hansberry,Louise Bogan,Edna St. Vincent Millay,Thomas Jefferson,Robert Lowell,Sabine R. Ulibarrí,Marianne Moore,Lawson Fusao Inada,Phillis Wheatley,Vern Rutsala,Kerry M. Wood,Eugenia Collier,John Smith,William Byrd II,James W. C. Pennington,Satanta,Lillian Hellman,Mona Van Duyn,Richard Rodriguez,Mari Evans,Theodore Roethke,John Crowe Ransom,Taylor, Edward,Robinson Jeffers	Selections include: ... - [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... - [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibra…	OL15164554W
Fables for our time	James Thurber	good alternative stories	OL15401462W
The United States in Literature	Bret Harte,Carl Sandburg,Ernest Hemingway,Day, Clarence,Mark Twain,Dorothy Parker,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,James Thurber,O. Henry,Theodore Hornberger,Theresa Helburn,Ogden Nash,Jesse Stuart,Douglas Southall Freeman,Walt Whitman,Stephen Crane,Stephen Vincent Benét,Benjamin Franklin,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Eugene O'Neill,Edgar Allan Poe,Thornton Wilder,Paul Farmer,Walter Blair,Brad Schulberg,Robert C. Pooley	Contains: PART I: American Life Through Literature A. THE GROWTH OF A NATION 23 UNIT I: SETTLING THE SEABOARD 24 Captain Smith Among the Indians John Smith 25 America's First Great Lady Donal…	OL16036156W
Great Short Stories of the World	Максим Горький,Colette,Frank O'Connor,Max Aub,Henry Lawson,Albert Camus,Corrado Alvaro,Robert Benchley,H. G. Wells,Isak Dinesen,Ernest Hemingway,Nigel Balchin,Sholem Aleichem,Katherine Anne Porter,Santha Rama Rau,Rabindranath Tagore,Mark Twain,Dorothy Parker,Leo Kennedy,Joseph Conrad,Антон Павлович Чехов,Dorothy L. Sayers,Aldous Huxley,David Herbert Lawrence,Graham Greene,Nadine Gordimer,Oscar Wilde,James Thurber,Alberto Moravia,O. Henry,Rumer Godden,John O'Hara,Truman Capote,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Gabrielle Roy,Unknown,Sally Benson,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Doris Lessing,Wallace Stegner,Guy de Maupassat,James Joyce,Luigi Pirandello,Eudora Welty,William Somerset Maugham,Mikhail Zoshchenko,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,Hernando Tellez,Pearl S. Buck,Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes,Ring Lardner,Shirley Jackson,Montague Rhodes James,Paul Horgan,Saki,Thomas Head Raddall,Katherine Mansfield,Bertolt Brecht,Josh Gregory,Irwin Shaw,Marcel Aymé,Jean Stafford,Lilika Nakos,S. J. Perelman,Damon Runyon,Anatole France,Machado de Assis,Jessamyn West,Hjalmar Söderberg	The leader of the people / John Steinbeck Mr. Know-all / W. Somerset Maugham Vanka / Anton Chekhov The happy prince / Oscar Wilde The old demon / Pearl S. Buck The sailor-boy's tale / Isak …	OL16048288W
Let your mind alone!	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…	OL16052283W
Great humorous stories	Harry Secombe,Bret Harte,Barry Pain,Seán O'Faoláin,Basil Boothroyd,Iris Murdoch,P. G. Wodehouse,Geoffrey Willans,H. F. Ellis,George S. Kaufman,David Niven,Nathaniel Gubbins,Douglas Sutherland,Phyllis Eleanor Bentley,Mark Twain,Gilbert Keith Chesterton,Dorothy Parker,Oscar Wilde,James Thurber,John Verney,O. Henry,Jerome Klapka Jerome,Max Apple,John Wyndham,Burdette, Robert J.,Rudyard Kipling,Frederic Raphael,Douglas Adams,Peter Ustinov,Arnold Bennett,Gerald Malcolm Durrell,James Herriot,Mole, John,William Somerset Maugham,David Nobbs,Groucho Marx,Keith Waterhouse,Alasdair Gray,Bob Larbey,Ronald Searle,Rob Buckman,Sue Townsend,Paul Theroux,George Grossmith,Auberon Waugh,Arthur Marshall,Stephen Leacock,Ring Lardner,E. F. Benson,Neil Boyd,Fran Lebowitz,C. Northcote Parkinson,Saki,Weedon Grossmith,Giovannino Guareschi,Robert Robinson,Nancy Mitford,Joyce Grenfell,Art Buchwald,Damon Runyon,E. M. Delafield,A. C. Games,Jean Davis,Patrick Campbell	RONNIE CORBETT: Introduction P.G. WODEHOUSE: 'The Voice from the Past' RING LARDNER: Mr and Mrs Fix-It H.F. ELLIS: Lent Term 1939 The Man Faggott (from The Papers of A.J. Wentworth, BA) …	OL19302720W
Prentice Hall Literature--Bronze	Jade Snow Wong,Alfred Noyes,Phyllis McGinley,Alan Feinstein,Robert Frost,James Stephens,Carl Sandburg,Raymond R. Patterson,Ernest Hemingway,Kyorai,Isaac Bashevis Singer,Teresa Palomo Acosta,William Saroyan,Mary O'Neill,James Ramsey Ullman,Anne Terry White,Dorothy De Wit,Gary Soto,Rod Serling,Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,Mary Austin,Emily Dickinson,Paul Annixter,Washington Irving,Joan Aiken,James Dickey,James Thurber,Annie Dillard,O. Henry,Barbara Mahone,Oliver Herford,Will Hobbs,Margery Facklam,Alice Walker,Amy Tan,Lewis Carroll,E. E. Cummings,Arthur W. Ryder,Walt Whitman,Olivia E. Coolidge,H. N. Levitt,William Jay Smith,Nikki Giovanni,Ray Bradbury,Leslie Silko,Gwendolyn Brooks,Rudyard Kipling,Edwin Way Teale,Charles Dickens,Richard Lederer,Aesop,Piri Thomas,Langston Hughes,Jack Finney,Quentin Reynolds,Inea Bushnaq,Yao-Wen Li,Wilson Rawls,Lucille Clifton,Sam Selvon,Mildred D. Taylor,Edgar Allan Poe,Denise Chavez,Chief Dan George,Vachel Lindsay,Andrew A. Rooney,James Herriot,Josephine Preston Peabody,Blanche L. Serwer-Bernstein,Pura Belpré,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Carol Kendall,Alexander McCall Smith,Israel Horovitz,Isaac Asimov,Hernando Tellez,Pearl S. Buck,James Whitcomb Riley,Courlander, Harold,Edna St. Vincent Millay,Ekkehart Malotki,Buson Taniguchi,Robert Service,Mari Sandoz,Shel Silverstein,Wendy Rose,Edward D. Hoch,Ernesto Galarza,Mai Vo-Dinh,Sarah Ann Leuthner,Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett,Juliet Piggott,Russell Baker,Theodore Roethke,Sumner Braunstein,Basho,Otsuji,William Shakespeare	Grades 7-9	OL24558115W
The greatest man in the world	James Thurber	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 …	OL29317412W
The Rinehart Book of Short Stories	C.L. CLINE,Joseph Conrad,Clarence Lee Cline,Антон Павлович Чехов,David Herbert Lawrence,James Thurber,William Faulkner,Rudyard Kipling,Stephen Crane,Sherwood Anderson,John Steinbeck,Robert Louis Stevenson,Stephen Vincent Benét,C. L. Cline,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Guy de Maupassant,James Joyce,Eudora Welty,William Somerset Maugham,Katherine Mansfield	[The fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) / Edgar Allan Poe [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne Mademoiselle Fifi / G…	OL7020901W
Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold	James Hurst,John Masefield,Robert Frost,Edwin Arlington Robinson,T. S. Eliot,Carl Sandburg,Ellen Harkins Wheat,Margaret Walker,Richard Connell,Sara Teasdale,Wisława Szymborska,Mark Twain,Όμηρος,Gary Soto,Anne McCaffrey,Marge Piercy,James Thurber,O. Henry,Paul Laurence Dunbar,Amy Tan,Lewis Carroll,E. E. Cummings,Rudolfo A. Anaya,Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs,Isabel Allende,Toni Cade Bambara,Martin Luther King Jr.,James C. Rettie,Leslie Silko,Sally Ride,Simon J. Ortiz,William Wordsworth,Arthur C. Clarke,Langston Hughes,William Least Heat Moon,John Updike,Thor Heyerdahl,John G. Neihardt,Edgar Allan Poe,Chief Dan George,Guy de Maupassant,Alfred Lord Tennyson,James Joyce,Derek Walcott,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Richard Wright,James Weldon Johnson,Paule Marshall,Yoshiko Uchida,Gordon Parks,Edgar Lee Masters,Marchette Gaylord Chute,Gabriela Mistral,Tomás Rivera,Gabriel García Márquez,Bruce Chatwin,John McPhee,Robert Browning,Margaret Atwood,Walter De La Mere,Donald Justice,Saki,Ernest Lawrence Thayer,Morley Callaghan,Frank R. Stockton,Christina Rosetti,Theodore Roethke,Chiyojo,Sumner Braunstein,Sui Wai Anderson,Basho,Grant Moss Jr.,William Shakespeare,William Gibson	High School level	OL7948604W
Thurber Carnival	James Thurber	James 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 upo…	OL9323423W