A collection of short stories based on Thurber's childhood and teenage years.
In the introduction to the stories, written by John K. Hutchens, he claims that Thurber had an excellent memory and that the stories are all true, for the greater part. I don't know if that is the case or not, but they are all funny and amazing and worthy of being cherished and passed on to later generations.
The stories are:
- The Night the Bed Fell
- The Car We Had to Push
- The Day the Damn Broke
- The Night the Ghost Got In
- More Alarms at Night
- A Sequence of Servants
- The Dog That Bit People
- University Days
- Draft Board Nights
- A Note at the End - a commentary by Thurber on his stories.
The book is available to read online for free at Project Gutenberg Canada.
Kirkus Reviews has a review of the book, dating from when it was published in the early 1930s: Kirkus Reviews.
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