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Wonderful O: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Deluxe edition.)

Thurber, JamesSimont, Marc(Illustrated by)Riggs, Ransom(Introduction by)
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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 Oin 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 Owhich 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 placeto 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 yesand 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 languageand 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.

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Penguin Publishing Group
1524705136 / 9781524705138
eBook (EPUB)
06/06/2017
English
96 pages
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