“The Last Flower” (1939), James Thurber


Humor is often a means to rip the facade off human defenses and impart messages that otherwise could be ignored. James Thurber’s book “The Last Flower” was a visual parable that reveals the cycle of devastation brought on by war. These are a few of the two dozen narrative images that made Thurber’s book a masterpiece of simplicity and power.




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