The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces

Author: James Thurber

James Thurber is universally admired for his hilarious sense of humour, off-beat imagination, and unique take on the world around him. “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty”, in which a young man’s fantasies have a much more powerful hold on him than reality, is probably his best-known prose work but this selection also contains wonderfully entertaining essays, poetry and carto….Read More

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