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Collected Fables: 85 Brilliant Satirical Stories from America's Greatest Humorist―Timeless Wisdom and Unforgettable Morals - Softcover

Thurber, James

 
9780062909176: Collected Fables: 85 Brilliant Satirical Stories from America's Greatest Humorist―Timeless Wisdom and Unforgettable Morals
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0062909177 ISBN 13: 9780062909176
Verlag: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

"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 (The Atlantic), 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 fables—illustrated by ten contemporary artists including Seymour Chwast, Mark Ulriksen, Laurie Rosenwald, and R. O. Blechman—are presented in Collected Fables, a must-have for readers of all ages.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0062909177
ISBN 13 
9780062909176
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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