Historically, Thurber follows the traditional horse-sense humorists, and he is clearly related to the nineteenthand early twentieth-century journalistic humorists and literary comedians such as Mark Twain, George H. Derby (who wrote "A New System of English Grammar"), Robert Henry Newell, Charles Farrar Browne, David Ross Locke, Henry W. Shaw, Charles H. Smith, Edgar Wilson Nye, George Ade (the author of a series of Fables in Slang), Finley Peter Dunne, Ambrose.....
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