The Bashful Earthquake & Other Fables and Verses

Title

en_US The Bashful Earthquake & Other Fables and Verses

en_US 0

Description

Oliver Herford

Creator

en_US Herford, Oliver See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Herford, Oliver

Date

2022-10-13T19:19:27Z

2020-03

en_US 1906

Date Available

2022-10-13T19:19:27Z

Date Issued

en_US 1906

Abstract

en_US The copyright on this book is 1898. The title story is a delightful verse creation. An earthquake knocks down "Houses and palaces all in a lump!" and then moves on, growing weaker all the time, until it rumbles around a dormouse's nest. The earthquake is trying to apologize when he melts away. Herford's wit shows up even earlier when the author gratefully acknowledges the illustrator for "his exquisitely delicate art." Of course, Herford is both author and illustrator. In "The Lovesick Scarecrow" a scarecrow is smitten with love for a crow and believes she may reciprocate. He admits to having dreamt of her resting on his breast. In the meantime, she is plotting with her husband how to pluck out the scarecrow's heart of straw to line her nest! Herford may get even closer to traditional fable in "The Doorless Wolf." A wolf confronts a newly rich man and reminds him that he, the wolf, earlier sat by the man's only door. Now the rich man has many doors. Can he not help the starving wolf? The newly rich man thinks and makes an offer. Will the wolf sit by his door so that all those who have been bothering the rich man will think that he is poor? The wolf accepts. "Thus affluence makes niggards of us all!"

Identifier

en_US 12248 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/137838

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Charles Scribner's Sons

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PS3515.E62B3 1906 See all items with this value

Aesop See all items with this value