Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US James Michie

Creator

en_US Lord, John Vernon See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Lord, John Vernon

Date

2016-01-25T15:52:45Z

en_US 1992-07

en_US 1989

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:52:45Z

Date Issued

en_US 1989

Abstract

en_US A great find on my first afternoon in Glasgow! Apparently this book is for sale only in the United Kingdom--unfortunately for the rest of us. The dust jacket is right: Lord's 100+ illustrations are exquisitely detailed. They are strong and sharp, with the texture of scrimshaw, right from the dust jacket cover on. Among the best illustrations: the fox in the well (27); the cat and the cock (33); the wolf, the fox, and the ape (48-9); the mouse, the frog, and the hawk (94); and FG (115). The illustrations are deliberately put into the twentieth century urban setting of Ditchling, Sussex. The illustrator rules this book: Lord invited Michie to translate certain fables. This book represents Michie's first Aesop. DS (13) gives a good sense of the strength and weakness of Michie's verse. Less successful is LS (11). Though he feels free to expand, Michie offers generally well contained, pithy stories with good rhythms in irregular rhyme schemes. This book will always be worth consulting for a contemporary version of a fable. There are 200+ fables here. Check the preface for Lord and Michie's position against morals, the acknowledgements for dates and numbers of fables in the major editions, the excellent short bibliography (155-6), and the index of fable titles (157-60).

Identifier

en_US 224025872

en_US 1301 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76878

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Jonathan Cape

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR6063.I224 A67 1989 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