| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
viii, 124 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Note |
First ed., first state, with uncancelled title leaf. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Mouse who went to the country -- Little girl and the wolf -- Two turkeys -- Tiger who understood people -- Fairly intelligent fly -- Lion who wanted to zoom -- Very proper gander -- Moth and the star -- Shrike and the chipmunks -- Seal who became famous -- Hunter and the elephant -- Scotty who knew too much -- Bear who let it alone -- Owl who was god -- Sheep in wolf's clothing -- Stork who married a dumb wife -- Green isle in the sea -- Crow and the oriole -- Elephant who challenged the world -- Birds and the foxes -- Courtship of Arthur and Al -- Hen who wouldn't fly -- Glass in the field -- Tortoise and the hare -- Patient bloodhound -- Unicorn in the garden -- Rabbits who caused all the trouble -- Hen and the heavens -- Excelsior -- Sands o' Dee -- Lochinvar -- Locksley Hall -- "Oh when I was..." -- Curfew must not ring to-night -- Barbara Frietchie -- Glove and the lions -- Ben bolt. |
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