Collected Fables Thurber James
Collected Fables Thurber James "James Thurber was a comedic genius. They are wry, accurate, and powerful reflections of ourselves, our foibles, our follies, and, above all, our self-importance. His…
Specifikacia Collected Fables Thurber James
Collected Fables Thurber James
"James Thurber was a comedic genius. They are wry, accurate, and powerful reflections of ourselves, our foibles, our follies, and, above all, our self-importance. His fables are not simply parodies of Aesop.
Perennially entertaining and astutely satirical, Thurber pinpricks the idiosyncrasies of life with verbal frivolity, hilarious insights, political shrewdness, and, of course, quirky, quotable morals.Now, readers can savor 85 fables by the twentieth century's preeminent humorist collected for the first time in a single anthology. And they are very, very funny." --Neil GaimanJames Thurber has been called "one of the world's greatest humorists" by Alistair Cooke (The Atlantic), and "one of our great American institutions" (Stanley Walker)--and few works reveal Thurber's genius as powerfully as his fables. Here, Fables for Our