Editing My World and Welcome to It (section)

=={{Anchor|My World and Welcome to It (book)}}Book==
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{{Infobox book 
| name          = My World — And Welcome To It
| title_orig    = 
| translator    = 
| image         =
| caption = 1969 paperback edition of ''My World — And Welcome To It''.
| author        = [[James Thurber]]
| illustrator   = James Thurber
| cover_artist  = James Thurber 
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| exclude_cover     = yes
| series        = 
| genre         = [[humor]]
| publisher     = [[Harcourt Trade Publishers|Harcourt, Brace and Company]]
| release_date  = October, [[1942 in literature|1942]]
| media_type    = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])
| pages         = 324 pages
| isbn          = 
| preceded_by   = Fables For Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated
| followed_by   = [[Many Moons]]
}}The similarly titled book by James Thurber, ''My World — And Welcome to It'', was published in 1942 by [[Harcourt Trade Publishers|Harcourt, Brace and Company]]. The current edition is {{ISBN|0-89190-269-4}}. Part One of this collection contains 22 assorted Thurber [[short story|short stories]] and humorous [[essay]]s, many of them illustrated with his cartoons.  Part Two consists of an eight-part comic memoir about France, written in 1937 and 1938, about twenty years after Thurber first arrived there near the conclusion of [[World War I]].<ref>{{cite web
  | title = His Life & Times: A Chronology
  | work = The Thurber House: A Literary Center for Writers and Readers
  | publisher = The Thurber House
  | url = http://www.thurberhouse.org/james/life.html
  | access-date = 2006-12-12 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060830174028/http://www.thurberhouse.org/james/life.html |archive-date = 2006-08-30}}</ref> None of these stories, however, feature any of Thurber's "Monroe Family" characters.

The tone of these pieces ranges from lighthearted wordplay and dialect ("What Do You Mean It ''Was'' Brillig?") to literary satire ("The Macbeth Murder Mystery") to psychological horror ("The Whip-Poor-Will" and "A Friend to Alexander").  The most famous story is "[[The Secret Life of Walter Mitty]]," which bears little resemblance to the [[The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947 film)|1947 film of the same name]].<ref>{{cite web
  | title = The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
  | work = Show Preview, AMCTV.com
  | publisher = American Movie Classics
  | url = http://www.amctv.com/show/detail?CID=2901-1-EST
  | access-date = 2006-12-12
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060629104142/http://www.amctv.com/show/detail?CID=2901-1-EST
  | archive-date = 2006-06-29
  | url-status = dead
  }}</ref>