In this collection, Thurber praises things canine in two marvelous tributes, muses over promises of mail sweepstakes, confesses his aversion to anything mechanical, and puzzles over the animal kingdom's curious uprisings. "Vintage Thurber . . . small masterpieces of contemporary comment".--Chicago Tribune. 75 line drawings.

"Vintage Thurber. . . small masterpieces of contemporary comment." --Chicago Tribune

"As funny, surprising, elegant, and subtly provocative as one would expect from that superb writer and draftsman." --Atlantic Monthly

This delightful volume of previously uncollected work from beloved American humorist James Thurber includes nearly one hundred drawings and writings by the only cartoonist who could claim to draw "abstract things like despair, disillusion, despondency, sorrow, lapse of memory, exile."

Edited and with an Introduction by Michael J. Rosen.