The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, 9780241282618
Paperback
Ordinary man, extraordinary daydreams: adventure lurks in his secret life.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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  • Paperback

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    30 November 2016

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Summary

Escape into Daydreams: The Hilarious World of Walter Mitty

The very best of James Thurber’s hilarious short stories, essays and cartoons.

Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary daydreams - 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?

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is just …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241282618
ISBN-10:0241282616
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
Author:James Thurber
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:30 November 2016
Weight:103g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 9mm
About The Author

James Thurber

James Thurber was born in 1894 at Columbus, Ohio. He worked at the American Embassy in Paris from 1918 to 1920, and then turned to journalism. From 1927 onwards he was on the staff of the New Yorker, where much of his work was first published. He died in New York in 1961, and is today recognised as one of America’s greatest twentieth-century humourists.

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