Item
The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice: A Homeric Fable
- Title
- en_US The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice: A Homeric Fable
- Description
- en_US First printing
- By George Martin
- Creator
- en_US Martin, George See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Gwynne, Fred
- Date
- 2020-02-27T20:41:01Z
- 2015-07
- en_US 2016
- Date Available
- 2020-02-27T20:41:01Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2016
- Abstract
- en_US Here is a paperbound version of a book already in the collection in a hardbound version. That edition was in 1962 and was done in hardbound with a dust-jacket from Dodd, Mead & Company. Now here is a paperback re-issue of the book, in fact a first printing, from Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin. One sign of the change is that the sub-title has shifted from "An Homeric Fable" to "A Homeric Fable." As I wrote of that edition, this contemporary version follows the Homeric parody through the death of Crum-snatcher and the description of arms. Thereafter it becomes original. Puff-jaw the frog, avoiding a water-snake, abandons Crum-snatcher the mouse, and the latter drowns. This incident will ultimately occasion the war. Puff-jaw denies his part in Crum-snatcher's death. The two sides arm. Gwynne does a good job of making the difficult scene "realizable." There is one great individual battle: Pond-larker versus Troglodyte. The former dies; then rains come and end the battle. Though I am happy to include the book in this collection, the only connection with fable continues to come in the sub-title.
- Identifier
- en_US 12204 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
- en_US New York
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books