{"product_id":"fables-for-our-time","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","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833258094797,"sku":"9780060909994","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_89c0ac7e-ff4c-4d1c-9beb-16dd4ae05263.jpg?v=1790804210","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/fables-for-our-time","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}