Fables of Our Time

" 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.