# Fables of Our Time

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- Authors: [James Thurber](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-thurber)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2023-06-27
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

" These tiny stories, 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 great American institutions'' (Stanley Walker) and " a magnificent satirist" (Boston Transcript). 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.

## Editions

### Fables of Our Time

- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- ISBN: 978-00-6090-999-4
- Pages: 136
- Published: 2023-06-27
- Language: en_US