TY - BOOK AU - Thurber,James TI - The Thurber carnival PY - 1945/// CY - New York, London PB - Harper & Bros. KW - Fables, American KW - Humorous stories, American KW - United States KW - Social life and customs KW - 20th century KW - Humor N1 - With hardcover N2 - As James Thurber writes in his preface, "This book contains a selection of the stories and drawings the old boy did in his prime, a period which extended roughly from the year Lindbergh flew the Atlantic to the day coffee was rationed. He presents this to his readers with his sincere best wishes for a happy new world." The Thurber Carnival, which the Saturday Review called "one of the absolutely essential books of etc ER -