{"product_id":"fables-for-our-time","title":"Fables for Our Time adn Famous Poems, Illustrated by James Thurber","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"These tiny\u003cbr\u003estories, in which a wide variety of animals show us humans how we really are, \u003cbr\u003eare completely uproarious.\" --The Saturday Review of Literature \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Thurber has been called \"one of our great\u003cbr\u003eAmerican institutions' (Stanley Walker) and \"a magnificent satirist\"\u003cbr\u003e(\u003cem\u003eBoston Transcript\u003c\/em\u003e). The \u003cem\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e submits that he\u003cbr\u003eis \"as blithe as Benchley...as savage as Swift...surprisingly wise and\u003cbr\u003ewitty,\" while the \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e of London, \u003cbr\u003eout of enthusiasm and a profound regard for truth, proclaims that \"Thurber\u003cbr\u003eis Thurber.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFables for Our\u003cbr\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e, Thurber the Moralist is in the ascendancy. Here are a score or more\u003cbr\u003elessons-in-prose dedicated to conventional sinners and proving--what you will.\u003cbr\u003eThe fables are imperishably illustrated, and are supplemented by Mr. Thurber's\u003cbr\u003eown pictorial interpretations of famous poems in a wonderful and joyous\u003cbr\u003eassemblage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us how human we really are, are completely uproarious.\"\"-- Saturday Review of Literature\"\"[Thurber] is not only a Landmark in American Humor...in the combination of his prose and pictures he is the funniest artist who ever lived and wrote it too.\"-- \"The New Republic\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Thurber \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1894. Famous for his humorous writings and illustrations, he was a staff member of \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e for more than thirty years. He died in 1961.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46129347002554,"sku":"9780060909994","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_efae8b7a-a853-4bef-b208-2656f4991871.jpg?v=1783619485","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/fables-for-our-time","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}