Let your mind alone!
Subtitle: And other more or less inspirational pieces
By: by James Thurber: with drawings by the author
Series: The Universal library -- UL77; Universal library -- UL77.
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Published: 1937
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: American wit and humor
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Pythagoras and the ladder; title: Destructive forces in life; title: The case for the daydreamer; title: A dozen disciplines; title: How to adjust yourself to your work; title: Anodynes for anxieties; title: The conscious vs. the unconscious; title: Sex ex Machina; title: Sample intelligence test; title: Miscellaneous mentation; title: The breaking up of the Winships; title: My memories of D.H. Lawrence; title: The case against women; title: No standing room only; title: Nine needles; title: A couple of hamburgers; title: The case of the laughing butler; title: Bateman comes home; title: Footnotes on a course of study; title: Remembrance of things past; title: Something about Polk; title: Aisle seats in the mind; title: Suli Suli; title: An outline of scientists; title: Highball flags; title: Mrs. Phleps; title: Guns and game calls; title: The hiding generation; title: Wild Bird Hickok and his friends; title: Dock Marlowe; title: Food fun for the menfolk; title: Goodbye, Mr. O. Charles Meyer!; title: What are the leftists saying?; title: How to write an autobiography; title: After the Steppe Cat, what?; title: Women go on forever; title: The wood duck; title: The admiral on the wheel.