These tinystories, in which a wide variety of animals show us humans how we really are,are completely uproarious. --The Saturday Review of Literature James Thurber has been called one of our greatAmerican institutions' (Stanley Walker) and a magnificent satirist (Boston Transcript). The New York Herald Tribune submits that heis as blithe as Benchley...as savage as Swift...surprisingly wise andwitty, while the Times of London,out of enthusiasm and a profound regard for truth, proclaims that Thurberis Thurber. In Fables for OurTime, Thurber the Moralist is in the ascendancy. Here are a score or morelessons-in-prose dedicated to conventional sinners and proving--what you will.The fables are imperishably illustrated, and are supplemented by Mr. Thurber'sown pictorial interpretations of famous poems in a wonderful and joyousassemblage.

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