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The James Thurber Audio Collection by James Thurber
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The James Thurber Audio Collection

Fables and Selected Stories by James Thurber

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Narrator Keith Olbermann

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Length 3 hours 2 minutes
Language English
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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 was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1894. Famous for his humorous writings and illustrations, he was a staff member of The New Yorker for more than thirty years. He died in 1961.

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