James Thurber

Collected Fables (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Rosen, Michael J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"James Thurber was a comedic genius. His fables are not simply parodies of Aesop. They are wry, accurate, and powerful reflections of ourselves, our foibles, our follies, and, above all, our self-importance. And they are very, very funny." --Neil Gaiman

James Thurber has been called one of the world's greatest humorists by Alistair Cooke (TheAtlantic), and one of our great American institutions (Stanley Walker)and few works reveal Thurber's genius as powerfully as his fables. Perennially entertaining and astutely satirical, Thurber pinpricks the idiosyncrasies of life with verbal frivolity, hilarious insights, political shrewdness, and, of course, quirky, quotable morals.

Now, readers can savor 85 fables by the twentieth century's preeminent humorist collected for the first time in a single anthology. Here, Fables for Our Time, Further Fables for Our Time, and ten previously uncollected fablesillustrated by ten contemporary artists including Seymour Chwast, Mark Ulriksen, Laurie Rosenwald, and R. O. Blechmanare presented in Collected Fables, a must-have for readers of all ages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 307
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062909183
• Artikelnr.: 56943258

Autorenporträt

James 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.