Top Thurber, this collection not only of his magazine pieces but his recent drawings and selections from the New Yorker Talk of the Town researches, this should have its own avid audience. For Thurber with his ability to pinion party pettiness, the embattled female against the wary male, the nonsensical as well as the stupid, has become one of our more expert, and always intelligent, humorists. The section on soap operas is a complete investigation into one of radio's unbelievable, if well-paid, manifestation his high-handed unnatural history; his odd fables, sketches and public rebuttals in the realm of words, facts, dog naming; his own drawings; his politics, and so on- all combine to make a companionable volume whose potpourri qualities are heightened by the variety of his inclusions. Swell reading- for odd moments, and more serious.
Pub Date: Oct. 4, 1948
ISBN: 015610850X
Page Count: 356
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace
Review Posted Online: Oct. 11, 2013
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1948
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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