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My Life and Hard Times

My Life and Hard Times
James Thurber

My Life and Hard Times is the 1933 autobiography of James Thurber. It is considered his greatest work as he relates in bewildered deadpan prose the eccentric goings on of his family and the town beyond .

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“She came naturally by her confused and groundless fears, for her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.”

James Thurber book My Life and Hard Times

My Life and Hard Times (1933) page 33, Harper & Row, New York.
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