Aesop & Company

Title

en_US Aesop & Company

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 Barbara Bader

Creator

en_US Bader, Barbara See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Geisert, Arthur

Date

2016-01-25T15:24:17Z

en_US 1991-11

en_US 1991

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:24:17Z

Date Issued

en_US 1991

Abstract

en_US The most reflective Aesop to appear for some time. An excellent introduction offers the results of careful scholarship. One question there lies in the statement that the life accompanied the fables throughout the middle ages (10). Her history of Aesopic fable reaches out to Locke, Lincoln, the Japanese, and native Americans. Working from Perry, Daly, and others, Bader is careful in telling the fables and drawing morals. The moral of TH is Steady effort gains more than talent that isn't used (18). FG begins Back in the days when foxes ate grapes.... (22). The moral to BC is Easier said than done (28). The ant's last line to grasshopper is Sing now and see what it will get you (30). Also well told: FK (38) and The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass (54). With such a good text, the art is disappointing. Though working from good ideas (e.g., on 35 and 41) and nicely juxtaposing town and country, people and animals, Geisert chooses a style and a color that seem to take the life out of the fables. The book's subtitle may mislead: the appendix tells Aesop's life but repeats illustrations of fables from earlier in the book.

Identifier

en_US 395505976

en_US 1142 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75927

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Houghton Mifflin

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.B14 Ae 1991 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole