Tales for Our Time

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Title: Further Fables for Our Time

Author: Thurber, James Grover (1894-1961)

Date of first publication: 1956

Edition used as base for this ebook: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1956 [first U.K. edition]

Date first posted: 21 March 2013

Date last updated: 21 March 2013

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FURTHER FABLES

FOR OUR TIME

Further Fables

for Our Time

by

JAMES THURBER

Illustrated by the Author

HAMISH HAMILTON

LONDON

First published in Great Britain 1956

by Hamish Hamilton Ltd

90 Great Russell Street London W.C.1

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY

EBENEZER BAYLIS AND SON LTD

WORCESTER AND LONDON

TO ELMER DAVIS

whose comprehension of people and persons

has lighted our time, so that we can see where

we are going, these fables are dedicated with

admiration, affection, and thankfulness

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Thirty-seven of these fables originally appeared in The New Yorker, but these ten are printed here for the first time:

The Sea and the Shore, The Lion and the Foxes, The Hen Party, The Bears and the Monkeys, The Chipmunk and His Mate, The Trial of the Old Watchdog, The Godfather and His Godchild, Tea for One, The Lady of the Legs and The Shore and...