Middle Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze Author:James Thurber, James Thurber This collection has 36 stories including: "The Gentleman is Cold," "Everything is Wild," "Mr. Preble Gets Rid of His Wife," "Hell Only Breaks Loose Once," "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox," and "How to See a Bad Play." The London Times said, "There may be greater humorists writing in America today than James Thurber, but none with q... more »uite his individual touch and his flavor."« less
Gentle humor writing from yesteryear, first published in the New Yorker. It is not as silly and uproarious as Wodehouse, but there are some good laughs. The pieces are short, good bedside reading or for waiting rooms.