Fables and Moral Maxims in Verse and Prose

Title

en_US Fables and Moral Maxims in Verse and Prose

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Selected by Anne Parker

Creator

en_US Parker, Anne See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:28Z

en_US 1994-06

en_US 1835

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:28Z

Date Issued

en_US 1835

Abstract

en_US There are 272 pages here with plenty of small print on them. The moral intent of the book is clear from the first paragraph, which closes with the comment that some school editions of Aesop's and Gay's fables abound in subjects and expressions, not merely repulsive from their coarseness, but more gravely objectionable, from their anti-social, and, frequently immoral, tendency (iv). It is good to know that someone was at least alert to what fables were offering! The collection of perhaps two hundred stories here includes fables in verse and in prose, some taken from Krumacher's Parables and some from Dodsley's Economy of Human Life. The moral maxims advertised in the title are not a separate section. There is an AI at the beginning. There are good little illustrations before every fourth or fifth fable, and some illustrations after fables too. One can count the ribs on the dog in DS on 265. New to me and good is The Monkey and the Nuts (24): the monkey pelts would-be attackers with the very nuts that they seek. Victory for him is ultimately as good as a defeat! The upper half of the spine has chipped off but is present; it reads Parker's Fables.

Identifier

en_US 4458 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80127

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US John W. Parker

en_US London

Subject

en_US PN982.F32 1835 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop et al See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole