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Great Depression, Domestic Comedy Great humor writer, best work David Kelly My Life and Hard Times Further Reading The Night the Ghost Got in Author BiographyPlot Summar圜haractersThemesStyleHistorical ContextCritical OverviewCriticismSourcesFurther Reading US humorist and cartoonist Ghost  hullabaloo Thurber’s, Bodwells, Police Absurdity, Defiance, etc.

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Its advent caused my mother to throw a shoe through a window of the house next door and ended up with my grandfather shooting a patrolman. The Night the Ghost Got in James Thurber, 1933 (1894-1961) The ghost that got into our house on the night of November 17, 1915, raised such a hullabaloo of misunderstandings that I am sorry I didn’t just let it keep on walking, and go to bed.

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