Fables for Our Time
and Famous Poems Illustrated
(Sprache: Englisch)
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 suppplemented by Mr. Thurber's own...
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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 suppplemented by Mr. Thurber's own pictorial interpretations of famous poems in a wonderful and joyous assemblage.
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"These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us humans how we really are, are completely uproarious." --The Saturday Review of LiteratureJames Thurber has been called "one of our great American institutions' (Stanley Walker) and "a magnificent satirist" (Boston Transcript). 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.
Autoren-Porträt von James Thurber
Thurber, JamesJames Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1894. Famous for his humorous writings and illustrations, he was a staff member of The New Yorker for more than thirty years. He died in 1961.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: James Thurber
- 1995, 144 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 13,4 x 20,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: HarperPerennial
- ISBN-10: 0060909994
- ISBN-13: 9780060909994
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.09.2011
Sprache:
Englisch
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