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The James Thurber Audio Collection

Fables and Selected Stories by James Thurber

2011 Released
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HarperISBN 9780062116840

Collected fables and short stories from literary legend and iconic American humorist James Thurber, performed by Keith Olbermann

""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 Gaiman

Stories in the collection include:

  • There’s No Place Like Home
  • The Bear Who Let It Alone
  • The Greatest Man in the World
  • The Night the Ghost Got In
  • I Went to Sullivant
  • The Unicorn in the Garden
  • How to Relax While Broadcasting
  • The Tortoise and the Hare
  • A Box to Hide In
  • The Owl Who Was God
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  • If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox
  • The Moth and the Star
  • The Dog That Bit People
  • The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery
  • The Little Girl and the Wolf
  • The Macbeth Murder Mystery
  • The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble
  • The Night the Bed Fell
  • Sex Ex Machina
  • The Scotty Who Knew Too Much
  • The Car We Had to Push
  • The Peacelike Mongoose

James Thurber

James Thurber (1894-1961), one of the outstanding American humorists and cartoonists of the twentieth century, was born in Columbus, Ohio, and launched his professional writing career as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch in 1920. He began writing for the New Yorker in 1927 after his friend and fellow writer E. B. White got him a job at the magazine. Though hampered by failing eyesight, Thurber wrote nearly forty books, including collections of essays, short stories, fables, and children's stories. He won a Tony Award for his popular Broadway play, A Thurber Carnival. Both that story and My Life and Hard Times have appeared in countless editions and dozens of languages throughout the world.

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