Collected Fables

>“These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us how human we really are, are completely uproarious.” — Saturday Review of Literature “These fables are as cogent and necessary today as they were before and after the Great War when Thurber’s plainspoken, satiric fables provided a way to speak out in an era of political suspiciousness, false hopes, and mistrust. These fables are, indeed, for our time.” —Michael J. Rosen, from the Introduction James Thurber has been called “one o