In Lake Wobegon Days, Keillor writes in a tradition of humor which might be seen as an amalgam of Mark Twain in such works as Roughing It (1872) and Life on the Mississippi (1883) and of Sarah Orne Jewett in short stories such as "The Guests of Mrs. Timms" and, especially, in The Country of the Pointed Firs. A more recent writer in this tradition is James Thurber, especially in The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) and My Life and Hard Times. This book shares with Life on the Mississippi and.....
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