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