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Title: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Title Record # 95655
Author: James Thurber
Date: 1939-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: To escape his overbearing wife, Walter Mitty has vivid daydreams in which he becomes various adventurous or important characters. No speculative content.
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Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Golden Argosy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language 1947-00-00 ed. Van H. Cartmell, Charles Grayson The Dial Press     656
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
The Golden Argosy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language 1955-00-00 ed. Van H. Cartmell, Charles Grayson The Dial Press     656
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
The Golden Argosy 1956-00-00 ed. V. H. Cartmell, Charles Grayson Bantam Books F1441
$0.50?$: US dollar
403
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth  
Designs in Fiction 1968-00-00 ed. Elizabeth Scheld The Macmillan Company 28958   xii+
256
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Jo Polseno Checkmark
Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories 1979-00-00 ed. Eric S. Rabkin Oxford University Press 0-19-502542-3
$22.50?$: US dollar
xvii+
478
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Greatest Man in the World 1979-01-01 James Thurber Perfection Learning (Tale Blazers) 0-89598-720-1   55
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories 1979-05-00 ed. Eric S. Rabkin Oxford University Press 0-19-502541-5
$5.95?$: US dollar
xvii+
478
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Hieronymus Bosch Checkmark
The Treasury of American Short Stories 1981-00-00 ed. Nancy Sullivan Doubleday 0-385-17139-0   xx+
748
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
My World—and Welcome to It 1987-00-00 James Thurber Methuen 0-413-14410-0
£4.95?£: UK pound
267
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll James Thurber  
The Treasury of American Short Stories 1990-00-00 ed. Nancy Sullivan Dorset Press 0-88029-512-0   xx+
748
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
The James Thurber Audio Collection: Fables and Selected Stories 2011-06-07 James Thurber HarperAudio 978-0-06-211684-0    
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
coll James Thurber Checkmark
Zoetrope: All Story, Winter 2013-2014 2013-12-00 ed. Michael Ray AZX Publications  
$8.00?$: US dollar
92
bedsheet?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding.
mag Checkmark
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 2016-00-00 James Thurber Penguin Books (Penguin Modern Classics) 978-0-241-28261-8
£7.99?£: UK pound
112
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Checkmark
21 Great Stories date unknown ed. Abraham H. Lass, Norma L. Tasman Mentor / New American Library 0-451-62785-7
$5.99?$: US dollar
352
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Checkmark
A Treasury of Short Stories: Favorites of the Past Hundred Years from Turgenev to Thurber, from Balzac to Hemingway, with Biographical Sketches of the Authors date unknown ed. Bernardine Kielty Simon & Schuster     xiii+
849
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
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