Collected Fables
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 GaimanJames 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 c…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-06-290918-3
- EAN: 9780062909183
- Produktnummer: 31727418
- Verlag: Harper Collins
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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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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