Fables for Our Time

These tinystories in which a wide variety of animals show us humans how we really areare 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 Londonout 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.