Item
Aesop's Fables/Basni Esopa (Chinese)
- Title
- en_US Aesop's Fables/Basni Esopa (Chinese)
- en_US Yiwen Classics
- Description
- en_US Language note: Chinese
- en_US Tenth printing
- Chinese translations by Wu Jianping and Yu Guopan
- Creator
- en_US Jianping, Chinese Wu See all items with this value
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:35Z
- 2025-01
- en_US 2023
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:35Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2012
- Abstract
- en_US Here is a curious book. It is a Chinese paperback 5¾” x 8¼” offering 299 pages of numbered fables. 429 are from Aesop, and then there are 82 from Phaedrus and 18 from Babrius. There are scarce and simple black-and-white illustrations along the way. It has been a long time since I have seen an illustration of a man trying to clean his black slave to be white (129). The source for at least the numbering of the fables is Perry, though I see no acknowledgement of him as source or mention of his numbering. A second curiosity for me is: Why a Russian title on both the cover and the title-page? At first I suspected it was a bilingual edition. My, the things our collection comes across!
- Identifier
- en_US 13682 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US chi
- Publisher
- en_US Shanghai Translation Publishing House
- en_US Shanghai
- Subject
- Aesop See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books