A Little Book of Profitable Tales

Title

en_US A Little Book of Profitable Tales

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Eugene Field

Creator

en_US Field, Eugene See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:49Z

en_US 2006-09

en_US 1904

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:49Z

Date Issued

en_US 1904

Abstract

en_US I was tempted to bypass this book in my cataloguing. But I chanced to read The Oak-Tree and the Ivy (105-112). Though longer than a traditional fable, its basic structure is that, I believe, of a fable. The oak grandly accepts the love of the ivy at his feet. Condescendingly, even, he will protect her and be good to her. In the meantime, she keeps growing upwards. She follows his invitations to cling close in storms. After some time, they are married, but he still sees himself as the protector and still sees her as the young thing at his feet. One fierce storm comes that knocks down many trees. When the oak prevails against the storm, the storm king in anger hurls a thunderbolt that cracks the oak into two. But the tender ministrations of his loving ivy bind up his wounds so that no one can see them. She now tells him stories: not his stories of the heroes, winds, and oceans but rather sweeter tales of contentment, of humility, of love (111). Nice!

Identifier

en_US 7822 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83075

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Charles Scribner's Sons

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ3.F455 Lt 1904 See all items with this value

en_US Eugene Field See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole