Shadow of the Donkey

Title

en_US Shadow of the Donkey

en_US Aesop's Fables Large Print

en_US Shanti 9

Description

en_US Edited by C.V. Indira

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T15:47:48Z

en_US 2013-12

en_US 2013?

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:47:48Z

Date Issued

en_US 2013

Abstract

en_US One of twenty in the series, found near the counter as we were settling up a large order of books. I find two surprises in the version of this traditional story offered here. First, usually one man has hired another man's donkey, and the second man comes along on the trip; or else the first man has hired the second man and his donkey. Here two travellers are walking with a donkey for a long time. There is no attempt to have the donkey belong to either or both. The second surprise comes when the text clearly states that the donkey, like the first man, sits down. The illustrations never show the donkey sitting! Besides that, a sitting donkey would offer less of the shadow about which the argument starts. In this version, the men get into fighting with each other and the donkey makes off while they are thus distracted. Moral: Foolishness never pays. Slick computer-generated art on sixteen pages of a pamphlet.

Identifier

en_US 8179205010

en_US 9946 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76755

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Shanti Publications

en_US Delhi

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.I533 Sha 2013 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole