{"product_id":"fables-for-our-time-isbn-9780060909994","title":"Fables for Our Time","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\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\u003cp\u003e In \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 | James Thurber has been called \"one of our great American institutions' (Stanley Walker), \"a magnificent satirist (\u003cem\u003eBoston Transcript\u003c\/em\u003e), and \"a Joyce in false-face\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e). The \u003cem\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e submits that he is \"as blithe as Benchley...as savage as Swift...surprisingly wise and witty,\" while the \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e of London, out of enthusiasm and a profound regard for truth, proclaims that \"Thurber is Thurber.\" \u003cp\u003e In \u003cem\u003eFables for Our Time\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887372923109,"sku":"NP9780060909994","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/fables-for-our-time-isbn-9780060909994","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}