Book Description
James Thurber has been called "one of our great American institutions' (Stanley Walker), "a magnificent satirist (Boston Transcript), and "a Joyce in false-face" (New York Times). The New York Herald Tribune submits that he is "as blithe as Benchley...as savage as Swift...surprisingly wise and witty," while the Times of London, out of enthusiasm and a profound regard for truth, proclaims that "Thurber is Thurber." In Fables for Our Time, Thurber the Moralist is in the ascendancy. Here are a score or more lessons-in-prose dedicated to conventional sinners and proving--what you will. The fables are imperishably illustrated, and are supplemented by Mr. Thurber's own pictorial interpretations of famous poems in a wonderful and joyous assemblage.


About the Author
James Thurber (1894)-1961) created some thirty volumes of humor, fiction, children's books, cartoons, and essays in just about as many years. A founding member of The New Yorker staff, Thurber wrote and illustrated such enduring books as The Thurber Carnival and My Life and Hard Times, which have appeared in countless editions and dozens of languages throughout the world.

ANNOTATION

"These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us how human we really are, are completely uproarious." --Saturday Review of Literature

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us how human we really are, are completely uproarious."--Saturday Review of Literature. Imperishably illustrated by Thurber himself."These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us how human we really are, are completely uproarious."

--Saturday Review of Literature

FROM THE CRITICS

Saturday Review of Literature