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Carregando... Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustratedde James Thurber, James Thurber (Ilustrador)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The Tiger who Would Be King This is a typical fable that includes talking animals, a problem, and solution, and or course, a moral at the end of the story. The characters are a tiger, his mate, a lion, and his mate, and many, many other animals in the jungle. It just so happens that one day, the tiger decides that he wants to become the King of the jungle, and pursues a fight with the lion. Other animals join in on the fighting, and at the end, only the tiger is left. He has become the king of the jungle, but at what cost? After all of the fighting, he himself is injured, and worn out. The moral of the fable is: You can't very well be king of beasts if there aren't any. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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James Thurber has been called "one of our great American institutions' (Stanley Walker), "a magnificent satirist (Boston Transcript), and "a Joyce in false-face" (New York Times). The New York Herald Tribune submits that he is "as blithe as Benchley...as savage as Swift...surprisingly wise and witty," while the Times of London, out of enthusiasm and a profound regard for truth, proclaims that "Thurber is Thurber." In Fables for Our Time, Thurber the Moralist is in the ascendancy. Here are a score or more lessons-in-prose dedicated to conventional sinners and proving--what you will. The fables are imperishably illustrated, and are supplemented by Mr. Thurber's own pictorial interpretations of famous poems in a wonderful and joyous assemblage. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This collection brings together the fables and some of the poems for which Thurber provided illustrations. The fables include both the better-known ones like "The Unicorn in the Garden" and "The Little Girl and the Wolf", and some less well known tales that include "The Mouse Who Went to the Country", "The Lion Who Wanted to Zoom", and "The Moth and the Star". Each fable has a moral that is often some practical bit of wisdom.
The poems are such that you might want to memorize like Longfellow's "Excelsior" and "Oh When I was . . ." by A. E. Housman from his collection "A Shropshire Lad". This small gem of a book is a delight to read and reread from time to time to lighten your day. ( )