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Let your mind alone!
James Thurber
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An edition of Let your mind alone! (1937)

Let your mind alone!

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A collection of humorous essays, accompanied by the author's own bizarre drawings, presenting Thurber's unremitting retort to the multitude of "self-help" books which were widespread in the 1930s and whose successors are still with us today.

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Grosset & Dunlap
Language
English
Pages
245

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American wit and humor

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Cover of: Let your mind alone!
Let your mind alone!: and other more or less inspirational pieces
1976, Perennial Library
in English - 1st Perennial Library ed.
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Cover of: Let your mind alone!
Let your mind alone!: and other more or less inspirational pieces
1976, Harper & Row
in English
Cover of: Let your mind alone!
Let your mind alone!: and other more or less inspirational pieces
1976, Perennial Library
in English - 1st Perennial Library ed.
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Let your mind alone!
Let your mind alone!: And other more or less inspirational pieces
1937, Grosset & Dunlap
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Table of Contents

Pythagoras and the ladder
Destructive forces in life
The case for the daydreamer
A dozen disciplines
How to adjust yourself to your work
Anodynes for anxieties
The conscious vs. the unconscious
Sex ex Machina
Sample intelligence test
Miscellaneous mentation
The breaking up of the Winships
My memories of D.H. Lawrence
The case against women
No standing room only
Nine needles
A couple of hamburgers
The case of the laughing butler
Bateman comes home
Footnotes on a course of study
Remembrance of things past
Something about Polk
Aisle seats in the mind
Suli Suli
An outline of scientists
Highball flags
Mrs. Phleps
Guns and game calls
The hiding generation
Wild Bird Hickok and his friends
Dock Marlowe
Food fun for the menfolk
Goodbye, Mr. O. Charles Meyer!
What are the leftists saying?
How to write an autobiography
After the Steppe Cat, what?
Women go on forever
The wood duck
The admiral on the wheel.

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Series
The Universal library -- UL77, Universal library -- UL77.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
817
Library of Congress
PS3539 .H94L4 1937

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Pagination
245 p.
Number of pages
245

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OL27129008M
OCLC/WorldCat
2750806

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