Item
Anno's Aesop
- Title
- en_US Anno's Aesop
- en_US Orchard Books
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US First printing?
- en_US Mitsumasa Anno
- Creator
- en_US Anno, Mitsumasa See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Anno, Mitsumasa
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:18:54Z
- en_US 1989-05
- en_US 1989
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:18:54Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1989
- Abstract
- en_US An engaging but frustrating book, done from a 1987 Japanese original. Uses Jones' 1912 edition for most of its English versions. The book's fiction is that a young fox finds the book and asks Mr. Fox to read it for him. He does so, giving his own idiosyncratic versions of the pictures, almost completely independent of the fables, which he cannot read. This fiction soon strains the reader. We are left with wonderful pictures and often maddening interpretations. The counterpoint approach, brilliant in itself, comes off best with Sour Grapes and FS. For many others, the joke wears out. Mercury is changed to Jupiter in the Woodcutter story. See the perceptive NY Times review enclosed.
- Identifier
- en_US 0531083748 (lib. bdg.)
- en_US 665 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Franklin Watts
- en_US New York, NY
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.A54 An 1989 See all items with this value
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books