Items related to Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems
Synopsis
First published over 50 years ago, this volume contains a collection of fables with a twist, as well as poems such as "Excelsior", "The Sands o'Dee", "Lochinvar" and "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight".
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Review
"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"
From the Back Cover
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.
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