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The James Thurber Audio Collection: Fables and Selected Stories by James Thurber Audiobook, by James Thurber Play Audiobook Sample

The James Thurber Audio Collection: Fables and Selected Stories by James Thurber Audiobook

The James Thurber Audio Collection: Fables and Selected Stories by James Thurber Audiobook, by James Thurber Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Keith Olbermann Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 2.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 1.50 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: June 2011 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780062116840

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

26

Longest Chapter Length:

20:10 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

22 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

07:00 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

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Publisher Description

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

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About James Thurber

James Thurber (1894–1961), one of the outstanding American humorists and cartoonists of the twentieth century, was born in Columbus, Ohio, and launched his professional writing career as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch in 1920. He began writing for the New Yorker in 1927 after his friend and fellow writer E. B. White got him a job at the magazine. Though hampered by failing eyesight, Thurber wrote nearly forty books, including collections of essays, short stories, fables, and children’s stories. He won a Tony Award for his popular Broadway play, A Thurber Carnival. Both that story and My Life and Hard Times have appeared in countless editions and dozens of languages throughout the world.

About Keith Olbermann

Keith Olbermann has hosted primetime news programs, moderated a Democratic presidential debate, anchored two World Series and one Super Bowl, written for dozens of major publications, and won numerous awards for broadcast and writing. He is the author of The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Other Contenders, Truth and Consequences, and other books.