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"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1939) is a short story by James Thurber. The most famous of Thurber's stories, it first appeared in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and was first collected in his book My World and Welcome to It (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942).
- James Thurber
- 1939
Walter Mitty is a regular chap who likes to day dream a few times a day; his adventurous second life is rich and riveting and so often interrupted by his whiny wife and life’s demands. Without worry he’s able to perform his tasks while shuffling his head dreams as if one was shuffling his ipod or playlist walking down a crowded street or ...
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A classic short story collection of a man who escapes his boring reality with fantasies of adventure and heroism. Read reviews, ratings, and book details on Goodreads, the world's largest community for readers.
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Walter Mitty drove on toward Waterbury in silence, the roaring of the SN202 through the worst storm in twenty years of Navy flying fading in the remote, intimate airways of his mind. “You’re ...
Dec 17, 2013 · by James Thurber (Author), Rosemary Thurber (Introduction) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.1 2,423 ratings. See all formats and editions. American humorist James Thurber’s classic short story is about a man who escapes the tedium of his mundane life by retreating into his vivid imagination.
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Jan 1, 2000 · The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Paperback – January 1, 2000. by James Thurber (Author) 4.3 48 ratings. See all formats and editions. Report an issue with this product or seller. Print length. 416 pages. Language.
- James Thurber
Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary day dreams - 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?
- James Thurber
