Item
Eton Fables
- Title
- en_US Eton Fables
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US By Cyril Alington
- Creator
- en_US Alington, Cyril See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:01:51Z
- en_US 2001-08
- en_US 1921
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:01:51Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1921
- Abstract
- en_US These are fourteen talks given apparently starting in 1917 to the students at Eton. They are chapel talks, some closest I think to what we might call exhortations and others really a form of parable. They often have an imaginative character. The author, a former headmaster at Eton, will describe himself as dreaming or as hearing the founder (King Henry VI) speaking. Perhaps the closest to a fable is The Two Palaces (52) about two servants who, commanded to build the king a palace, take alternative approaches. The first builds himself a house and waits to learn what the king wants. The second has only a shack for himself but has started a magnificent palace for the king. At their best, these sermons work from a good metaphor or image. At their worst, they labor a bit.
- Identifier
- en_US 3915 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Longmans Green and Co.,
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PR6001.L5 E8 1921 See all items with this value
- en_US Cyril Alington See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books