Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060909994
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Fables for Our Time by : James Thurber
Download or read book Fables for Our Time written by James Thurber and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1983-03-23 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.