Thurber James, Wharton Edith, Jackson Shirley:
Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story
Symphony Space, 2006
Size: 128x154 mm
ISBN: 9780971921832
ISBN-10: 0971921830
List price: £27.50
You save: 30%
James Thurber
James Thurber (1894)-1961) Created Some 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.
Edith Wharton
America's Most Famous Woman Of Letters, And The First Woman To Win The Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton Was Born Into One Of The Last "Leisured Class" Families In New York City, As She Put It, In 1862. Educated Privately, She Was Married To Edward Wharton In 1885, And For The Next Few Years, They Spent Their Time In The High Society Of Newport (Rhode Island), Then Lenox (Massachusetts) And Europe. It Was In Europe That Wharton First Met Henry James, Who Was To Have A Profound And Lasting Influence On Her Life And Work. Wharton's First Published Book Was A Work Of Nonfiction, In Collaboration With
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson, Born In 1919, Was The Author Of Numerous Books, Including "Hangsman," "Life Among The Savages," And "We Have Always Lived In The Castle," For The Last Twenty Years Of Her Life, Until Her Death In 1965, She Lived In North Bennington, Vermont. <Br>
