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Author | : James Thurber |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2019-06-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062909185 |
"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 James Thurber has been called “one of the world’s greatest humorists” by Alistair Cooke (TheAtlantic), and “one of our great American institutions” (Stanley Walker)—and few works reveal Thurber’s genius as powerfully as his fables. Perennially entertaining and astutely satirical, Thurber pinpricks the idiosyncrasies of life with verbal frivolity, hilarious insights, political shrewdness, and, of course, quirky, quotable morals. Now, readers can savor 85 fables by the twentieth century’s preeminent humorist collected for the first time in a single anthology. Here, Fables for Our Time, Further Fables for Our Time, and ten previously uncollected fables—illustrated by ten contemporary artists including Seymour Chwast, Mark Ulriksen, Laurie Rosenwald, and R. O. Blechman—are presented in Collected Fables, a must-have for readers of all ages.
Author | : Moshe Wallich |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780814324493 |
Reproduced pages of the original 17th-century Yiddish, including the woodcuts, face the first English translation of the 34 fables that comprise Wallich's Sefer Mesholim. A valuable resource for students of the Yiddish language and of European Jewish culture of the early modern period. The fables come mostly from Aesop and medieval Hebrew and German sources. Well annotated. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Ambrose Bierce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 810 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Aesop |
Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781853261282 |
A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
Author | : Shirley Hazzard |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2020-11-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374720487 |
Collected Stories includes both volumes of the National Book Award–winning author Shirley Hazzard’s short-story collections—Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses—alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories Shirley Hazzard's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and accomplishment. Taken together, these twenty-eight short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical send-ups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut. Hazzard's heroes are high-minded romantics who attempt to fit their feelings into the twentieth-century world of office jobs and dreary marriages. After all, as she writes in "The Picnic," "It was tempting to confine oneself to what one could cope with. And one couldn't cope with love." And yet it is the comedy, the tragedy, and the splendor of love, the pursuit and the absence of it, that animates Hazzard's stories and provides the truth and beauty that her protagonists seek. Hazzard once said, "The idea that somebody has expressed something, in a supreme way, that it can be expressed; this is, I think, an enormous feature of literature." Her stories themselves are a supreme evocation of writing at its very best: probing, uncompromising, and deeply felt.
Author | : adrienne maree brown |
Publisher | : AK Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2022-11-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1849354510 |
Fables and Spells is a vibrant selection of visionary works, both previously published and brand new. Included here is brown’s most beloved story, “The River,” as well as the two sequel tales of her Water Trio. The remaining sixty-seven pieces explore moments of beauty, conflict, and transformation that also weave deep, radical lessons. With narrative “fables” of speculative fiction and “spells” that play with the lines between poetry, instruction, song, and chant, Fables and Spells demonstrates how good writing can engage the present while providing expansive visions of the possible worlds humans can build. adrienne maree brown’s previous work includes Octavia’s Brood, Emergent Strategy, the New York Times best-selling Pleasure Activism, We Will Not Cancel Us, Holding Change, and Grievers. brown grows transformative ideas in public through her writing and art; she is a poet changing the world. She is the writer-in-residence at Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute.
Author | : IglooBooks |
Publisher | : Igloo Books |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2015-09-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781785570926 |
Meet a jealous donkey, a tortoise who wants to fly, a very special goose, and many other animals in this collection of tales retold especially for children. Aesop's fables are the perfect way to learn important lessons about life through the adventures of some unforgettable animal friends.
Author | : Sylvia Plath |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Children's poetry, American |
ISBN | : 9780571207565 |
Three classic children's stories, Mrs Cherry's Kitchen, The Bed Book and The It Doesn't Matter Suit, collected together in one volume for the first time.
Author | : Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 1994-04-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811220818 |
This definitive collection establishes Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century. Tennessee Williams’ Collected Stories combines the four short-story volumes published during Williams’ lifetime with previously unpublished or uncollected stories. Arranged chronologically, the forty-nine stories, when taken together with the memoir of his father that serves as a preface, not only establish Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century, but also, in Gore Vidal’s view, constitute the real autobiography of Williams’ "art and inner life."
Author | : Willa Cather |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 2013-01-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307831698 |
The most complete collection available of Willa Cather's remarkable short fiction, Collected Stories brings together all the stories published in book form during her lifetime along with two additional volumes compiled after her death. These nineteen stories resonate with all the great themes that Cather staked out like tracts of fertile land: the plight of people hungry for beauty in a country that has no room for it; the mysterious arc of human lives; and the ways the American frontier transformed the strangers who came to it, turning them imperceptibly into Americans. In these fictions, Cather displays her vast moral vision, her unerring sense of place, and her ability to find the one detail or episode that makes a closed life open wide in a single exhilarating moment.