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The Wonderful O: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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Artikelmerkmale
- Artikelzustand
- ISBN
- 0143130420
- EAN
- 9780143130420
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Release Title
- The Wonderful O: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- Artist
- various
- Brand
- N/A
- Colour
- N/A
- Book Title
- Wonderful O : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Genre
- Juvenile Fiction, Fiction
- Topic
- Fantasy & Magic, Humorous Stories, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Fairy Tales & Folklore / General, General, Literary, Humorous / General
- Item Width
- 5.6in
- Item Weight
- 4.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 96 Pages
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Great American humorist James Thurber's beloved, madcap, and eerily timely fairy tale about an island society robbed of the wonders of the letter O--in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring flaps, deckle-edged paper, and the original, full-color illustrations Littlejack has a map that indicates the existence of a treasure on a far and lonely island, and Black has a ship to get there. So the two bad men team up and sail off on Black's vessel, the Aeiu. The name, Black explains, is all the vowels except for O--which he hates since his mother got wedged in a porthole: They couldn't pull her in, so they had to push her out. Black and Littlejack arrive at the port and demand the treasure. No one knows anything about it, so they have their henchmen ransack the place--to no avail. But Black has a better idea: He will take over the island and purge it of O. ("I'll issue an edict!") The harsh limits of a life sans O (where shoe is she and woe is we) and how finally with a little luck and lots of pluck the islanders shake off their overbearing interlopers and discover the true treasure for themselves (Oh yes--and get back their O's)--these are only some of the surprises that await readers of James Thurber's timelessly zany fairy tale about two louts who try to lock up the language--and lose. It is a tour de force of wordplay that will delight fans of Lewis Carroll, Dr. Seuss, Edward Lear, and Roald Dahl, and a timely reminder of how people can band together in the name of freedom to overthrow a tyrant. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143130420
ISBN-13
9780143130420
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237424620
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wonderful O : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Fantasy & Magic, Humorous Stories, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Fairy Tales & Folklore / General, General, Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Juvenile Fiction, Fiction
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
4.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Mlcs 2018/47392 (P)
Reviews
"A perfect book for children and one every thinking adult should read. It's a timeless story that can be read as a commentary on world affairs a half century ago, but that feels absolutely (and sadly) relevant today. . . . It accomplishes feat after feat of linguistic acrobatics: Not quite poetry, not quite prose, O is ear candy." -- Ransom Riggs, from the Introduction "No one else could think up a fairy story, tale, legend, exercise, or what have you, based upon 'O' alone. Certainly no one else could bring it off if he had. Mr. Thurber, however, can, did, and does. No more worthy 'O' words could go before The Wonderful O than another O Wonderful." -- The New York Times "A prodigious performance. As a medium in the great sance of letters [Thurber] is incomparab≤ he has only to utter an incantatory moan, and words levitate, phrases rap out unexpected messages, and whole sentences turn into ectoplasm." -- The New Yorker "A tale for children, and a reminder for adults, of the joys of love, liberty, language, and, not least, humor. It has pirates and treasure and magic and a message that especially in complacent times must not be forgotten. . . . The Wonderful O is a book worth finding, wherever you can, and reading, as one of its characters concludes, 'lest we forget.'" -- The Wall Street Journal "The loveliest and liveliest of parables. The end is a real surprise." -- Harper's Magazine "Full of word lists and wordplay, with charming illustrations by Marc Simont, it is a verbally ambitious little classic for logophiles. Or, as the pirate would have it, lgphiles." -- The Sunday Times (London) "Excellent Thurber. Besides being a highly original fairy tale and a rollicking linguistic gambol, The Wonderful O is a still further fable for our time--perhaps the best and most serious that Thurber has written." -- New York Herald Tribune Book Review "Perhaps the worthiest contemporary fabulist in English. [Thurber's] effects are almost musical. He gets us to laugh and gulp down another lesson in the value of human liberty at one and the same time." -- San Francisco Examiner "Pure and unadulterated Thurber, and that means Thurber at his zaniest. Not since Lewis Carroll has such foolishness masked such wisdom; and besides, it's a gale of fun from start to finish." -- St. Louis Globe-Democrat "While ostensibly for children who will love its wit, its rhythms, and its free-flowing imagination, it will speak irresistibly to older minds and funnybones and, one might add, hearts." -- Boston Herald, "A perfect book for children and one every thinking adult should read. It's a timeless story that can be read as a commentary on world affairs a half century ago, but that feels absolutely (and sadly) relevant today. . . . It accomplishes feat after feat of linguistic acrobatics: Not quite poetry, not quite prose, O is ear candy." -- Ransom Riggs, from the Introduction "No one else could think up a fairy story, tale, legend, exercise, or what have you, based upon 'O' alone. Certainly no one else could bring it off if he had. Mr. Thurber, however, can, did, and does. No more worthy 'O' words could go before The Wonderful O than another O Wonderful." -- The New York Times "A prodigious performance. As a medium in the great sance of letters [Thurber] is incomparab≤ he has only to utter an incantatory moan, and words levitate, phrases rap out unexpected messages, and whole sentences turn into ectoplasm." -- The New Yorker "A tale for children, and a reminder for adults, of the joys of love, liberty, language, and, not least, humor. It has pirates and treasure and magic and a message that especially in complacent times must not be forgotten. . . . The Wonderful O is a book worth finding, wherever you can, and reading, as one of its characters concludes, 'lest we forget.'" -- The Wall Street Journal "The loveliest and liveliest of parables. The end is a real surprise." -- Harper's Magazine "Hilarious . . . Thurber uses humor to explore what becomes of a society when something we use to communicate--to understand and to be understood--is taken away." -- The Weekly Standard "Full of word lists and wordplay, with charming illustrations by Marc Simont, it is a verbally ambitious little classic for logophiles. Or, as the pirate would have it, lgphiles." -- The Sunday Times (London) "Excellent Thurber. Besides being a highly original fairy tale and a rollicking linguistic gambol, The Wonderful O is a still further fable for our time--perhaps the best and most serious that Thurber has written." -- New York Herald Tribune Book Review "Perhaps the worthiest contemporary fabulist in English. [Thurber's] effects are almost musical. He gets us to laugh and gulp down another lesson in the value of human liberty at one and the same time." -- San Francisco Examiner "Pure and unadulterated Thurber, and that means Thurber at his zaniest. Not since Lewis Carroll has such foolishness masked such wisdom; and besides, it's a gale of fun from start to finish." -- St. Louis Globe-Democrat "While ostensibly for children who will love its wit, its rhythms, and its free-flowing imagination, it will speak irresistibly to older minds and funnybones and, one might add, hearts." -- Boston Herald
Illustrated by
Simont, Marc
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2017-285255
Dewey Decimal
[Fic]
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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