Fables for our times and famous poems illustrated / James Thurber
| dc.contributor | Jappy, Anthony Etudes anglo-americaine Université de Perpignan Perpignan |
| dc.contributor.author | Thurber, James, 1894-1961 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | n.l. |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-19T14:43:10Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-19T14:43:10Z |
| dc.date.created | 1940 |
| dc.date.issued | 1991-06-18 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1460 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/1460 |
| dc.description.abstract | First ed., New York : Harper and Row, 1940 |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 50 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Use of this resource is restricted in some manner. Usually this means that it is available for non-commercial use only with prior permission of the depositor and on condition that this header is included in its entirety with any copy distributed. |
| dc.rights.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Fables, American -- 20th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | American wit and humor -- 20th century |
| dc.subject.other | Parodies |
| dc.subject.other | Fables |
| dc.title | Fables for our times and famous poems illustrated / James Thurber |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 50759 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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<A Thurber> [James Thurber, *Fables for our Time*, Perennial Press ([1940] 1982)] <T Mouse> [The Mouse Who Went to the Country] Once upon a Sunday there was a city mouse who went to visit a country mouse. He hid away on a train the country mouse had told him to take, only to find that on Sundays it did not stop at Beddington. Hence the city mouse could not get off at Beddington and catch a bus for Sibert's Junction, where he was to be met by the country mouse. The city mouse, in fact, was carried on to Middleburg, where he waited three hours for a train to take him back. When he got back to Beddington he found that the last bus for Sibert's Junction had just left, so he ran and he ran and he ran and he finally caught the bus and crept aboard, only to find that it was not the bus for Sibert's Junction at all, but was going in the opposite direction through Pell's Hollow and Grumm to a place called Wimberby. When the bus finally stopped, the city mouse got out into a heavy rain and . . .
