Fables of Our Time

<p><strong>"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 </strong></p><p>James Thurber has been called "one of our great American institutions'' (Stanley Walker) and "a magnificent satirist" (<em>Boston Transcript</em>). The <em>New York Herald Tribune</em> submits that he is "as blithe as Benchley...as savage as Swift...surprisingly wise and witty," while the <em>Times</em> of London, out of enthusiasm and a profound regard for truth, proclaims that "Thurber is Thurber."</p><p> In <em>Fables for Our Time</em>, 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.</p>