Further Fables for Our Time
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956.
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Foxing and browning. Dustwrapper rubbed with fading. Light tearing on spine. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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James Thurber
birth name: James Thurber
born: 12/8/1894
died: 11/2/1961
Biography
American writer and cartoonist noted for his vison of the urban man as one who escapes into fantasy because he is befuddled and beset by a world that he neither created nor understands. Thurber's best-known portrait of this character is probably Walter Mitty. Thurber's stock characters-the snarling wife, her timid, hapless husband, and a roster of serene, silently observing animals-have become classics of urban mythology. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore