Aesop's Fables: Classics Illustrated #18

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables: Classics Illustrated #18

en_US Classics Illustrated #18

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First Papercutz printing

en_US Adapted and illustrated by Eric Vincent. Lettering by Patrick Owsley

Creator

en_US Vincent, Eric See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Vincent, Eric

Date

2016-12-01T20:16:43Z

en_US 2016-07

en_US 2013

Date Available

2016-12-01T20:16:43Z

Date Issued

en_US 2013

Abstract

en_US Here is a new hardbound version of the book first printed in 1991 by Classics International Entertainment. The number in the Classics Illustrated series has shifted from #26 then to #18 now. The frontispiece advertises the nineteen books in the series. Several pages at the end advertise a deluxe series and offer pages from another number in the series, which is seen now as a series of graphic novels. Pink endpapers present the last scene from "The Prophet." This book is unpaginated, but I will keep the page references from the earlier publication so that readers can find particular stories more easily. As I wrote then, I really like this book. There are twenty-five fables told in this comic-book format, generally receiving one or two pages. Only "The Quack Frog" (26) and TMCM (40) get more pages, a total of three and four respectively. Among the best-told and best-illustrated are FC (4), "The Quack Frog," WS (33), and "The Soldier and His Horse" (35). Often fables told with humans as characters elsewhere in the Aesopic tradition are pictured with animals here, like the monkey astronomer (6) and the spendthrift (23; sorry, I cannot tell what animal this is!). There are some curious differences here from the tradition. In FM, the frog fails to note that he is drowning the mouse (7). A dog-barber sharpens the boar's tusks with a steel file in his shop (12). The monkey who dances before the camel tries to dance is a voluptuous female (24). The moral for "The Tortoise and the Eagle" is "envy is the strength of fools" (10) and for "The Viper and the File" it is "The covetous are poor givers" (20).

Identifier

en_US 11022 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/107750

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US First Classics: Papercutz

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5V45 2013 See all items with this value

en_US Comic Book See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole