The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Penguin Modern Classics)

Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid extraordinary day dreams - in which the life he leads is one of excitement and even adventure in which he - a weary put upon middle-aged man - is the hero of his own story. A man can dream can't he? The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is just one of the brilliant humorous and witty stories written by James Thurber and collected here.