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- A Very Good Children’s Book (1865)
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Category Archives: James Thurber
The Unicorn in the Garden
James Thurber‘s drawings, once extremely popular, place him firmly in the tradition of Edward Lear’s apparently childish illustration, while his stories tend to be mildly satiric or parodistic. One of the most famous of these, The Unicorn in the Garden, … Continue reading
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