Fables for Our Time

About this book

"These tinystories, in which a wide variety of animals show us humans how we really are,are completely uproarious." --The Saturday Review of Literature James Thurber has been called "one of our greatAmerican institutions' (Stanley Walker) and "a magnificent satirist"(Boston Transcript). The New York Herald Tribune submits that heis "as blithe as Benchley...as savage as Swift...surprisingly wise andwitty," while the Times of London,out of enthusiasm and a profound regard for truth, proclaims that "Thurberis Thurber." In Fables for OurTime, Thurber the Moralist is in the ascendancy. Here are a score or morelessons-in-prose dedicated to conventional sinners and proving--what you will.The fables are imperishably illustrated, and are supplemented by Mr. Thurber'sown pictorial interpretations of famous poems in a wonderful and joyousassemblage.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780060909994

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published

March 23, 1983

Pages

144

Weight

4.6 oz

Subject

Humor