Is Sex Necessary?

Is Sex Necessary?

E. B. White / James Thurber

14,74 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Martino Fine Books
Año de edición:
2025
ISBN:
9781684229970
14,74 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Sobre IBD

A sparkling literary spoof first published in 1929, Is Sex Necessary? is a sly, subversive response to the surge of earnest psychoanalytic sex manuals that flooded the American market in the Jazz Age. With mock-scholarly flair and deadpan absurdity, James Thurber and E. B. White dismantle the anxieties, theories, and taboos of modern romance-one ridiculous diagram at a time.This comedic collaboration marked the literary debut of both men, launching Thurber’s career as America’s master of neurotic whimsy and showcasing White’s quiet genius for prose. Accompanied by Thurber’s charmingly awkward line drawings, the book is a pitch-perfect send-up of both high-minded intellectualism and the fraught terrain of love and sex.Wickedly smart and delightfully inappropriate, Is Sex Necessary? remains one of the great comic gems of American letters-an irreverent tonic for the overly serious and an affectionate jab at our deepest, silliest questions.

Artículos relacionados

  • Poetry Is Our Ministry to Touch the Heart
    Anelda Lukesia Ballard / Jean Anelda Scott
    Poetry is Our Ministry to Touch the Heart, was birthed when Anelda L. Ballard became ill. God spoke to her in a dream and said 'pick up a pen and write' by being obedient this book was written through the Holy Spirit. Anelda and her mother Jean A. Scott believes that God’s wants to heal a hurting heart. This book will inspire you and encourage you to never give up hope. Jesu...
    Disponible

    11,12 €

  • I soldati lunghi
    Pierluigi Romeo di Colloredo Mels
    Il 24 maggio 1915 il Regno d’Italia entrò nella Grande Guerra, che si sarebbe dimostrata il momento più alto e tragico della sua storia, a poco più di cinquant’anni dalla sua unificazione.In quella lotta tremenda durata quattro anni, la Brigata Granatieri di Sardegna , con i suoi due valorosi Reggimenti, i più antichi del Regio Esercito scrisse, nel grande quadro della guerra d...
    Disponible

    32,59 €

  • Five Beneath Philly
    Susan Bandy / Tom Richmond
    Allen Williams plans to make something of his life and escape South Philly and the work at Cross Brothers’ Meat Packing Plant. He prepares himself with excellent grades and an upcoming full-ride scholarship to climb out of South Philly forever. Then fate changes his whole world. An only son in a family of six, Allen suddenly finds himself responsible for his mother, grandmother...
    Disponible

    18,28 €

  • Forms
    Sharon Welch
    I am an award-winning artist and my works hang in private residences, community hospitals, businesses, and restaurants across the US and also abroad.  I live in Pierre, South Dakota. Since 2008 I have owned Sharon Welch Gallery and Studio where I paint and teach classes.  My theory is have fun, remove the fear of failure, experiment and let the child inside of you play.Very oft...
  • Ricordi di una ausiliaria
    Andrea Lombardi / Raffaella Duelli
    Le memorie di Raffaella Duelli, Volontaria nel Battaglione Barbarigo della Decima Flottiglia Mas iniziano con la partenza del Barbarigo da Roma, narrando la lunga marcia del reparto verso il nord, sotto il mitragliamento degli aerei Alleati. Quindi, è descritta vividamente l'ultima battaglia del Barbarigo sul Fronte Sud, dal Senio a Comacchio: gli appunti di Raffaella, giov...
    Disponible

    28,08 €

  • Why Didn’t You Ask?
    Panya Dixon
    From an early occurrence in her childhood to a perilous thirteen-year relationship, Panya Dixon too often suffered from various forms of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Conflicted between love and the pain her loved ones brought on her, she consistently had to fight for her life and her will to move on. Why Didn’t You Ask? is an expression of Panya’s truth—her trials, pa...
    Disponible

    20,35 €

Otros libros del autor

  • Is Sex Necessary?
    E. B. White / James Thurber
    'Is Sex Necessary?' is a classic work of American satire that lampoons the pseudo-scientific approach to human sexuality prevalent in the early 20th century. Written by legendary humorists James Thurber and E. B. White, this witty collaboration parodies the clinical and often absurdly serious tone of psychoanalytic literature. Through a series of mock-academic essays and Thurbe...
    Disponible

    23,10 €

  • Is Sex Necessary?
    E. B. White / James Thurber
    'Is Sex Necessary? Or Why You Feel the Way You Do' is a brilliant collaborative satire by two of the most influential figures in American letters, James Thurber and E.B. White. This witty parody takes aim at the overly serious psychoanalytical and 'sexological' literature that rose to prominence in the early 20th century. Combining Thurber’s distinctive brand of absurd humor an...
    Disponible

    23,08 €