IS SEX NECESSARY?: Or, WHY YOU FEEL THE WAY YOU DO?
by James Thurber; E.B. White
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- 0060911026
- ISBN 13
- 9780060911027
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New York, NY: Harper & Row/Perennial Libray, 1990. 2nd Edition, 5th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW, showing faint margin discoloration. Blue softcover/VG w/trace edge & surface wear. 1929 classic satire as pseudo-scientifc sex manuals flooded the market after Freud turned sexuality into a science, just when both Thurber and White were "profoundly interested in earning a living". This book also marks the prose narrative published by either cartoonist, author & wit James Thurber (1894 - 1961) or by E. B. White (1899 - 1895) of Charlotte's Web fame. Masterpiece of comic, whimsical humor. What of life, ove, and marriage? Spoof on men, women, psychologists, and how-to-books. Illustrated w/52 drawings (originally rendered in penci) this reissue has an Introduction by White dated 1950. 190 pgs, in 8 chapters: I, The Nature of the American Male: A Study of Pedestalism; II, How to Tell Love from Passion; III, A Discussion of Femine Types; IV, The Sexual Revolution: Being a Rather Complete Survey of the Entire Sexual Scene; V, The Lilies-and-Bluebird Delusion; VI, What Should Children Tell Parents?; VII, Claustrophobia, or What Every Young Wife Should Know; and VIII, Frigidity in Men, followed by Glossay, and E.B. White's account on how Thurber's cartoons were assembled.
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- Title
- IS SEX NECESSARY?: Or, WHY YOU FEEL THE WAY YOU DO?
- Author
- James Thurber; E.B. White
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition, 5th Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060911026
- ISBN 13
- 9780060911027
- Publisher
- Harper & Row/Perennial Libray
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Satire/Sex in America/
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor/Wit;
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