Item
It's Not Easy to Marry an Elephant and Other Fables
- Title
- en_US It's Not Easy to Marry an Elephant and Other Fables
- 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 By Beatrice Schuman
- Creator
- en_US Schuman, Beatrice Chernuchin See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Wolff, Roland
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:38:54Z
- en_US 1998-12
- en_US 1982
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:38:54Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1982
- Abstract
- en_US This is a book of forty-three satirical and humorous short stories. They play with animals in human situations. Very frequently the social situations concern marriage, family and especially mothers-in-law, and social standing. Some readers may find the stories cute. The characters are generally named. Crow (27-32) may be typical. Clarissa the crow harps regularly at Calvin, her husband. He takes it for only so long. Actually, it is his kindness to Clarissa that finally leads him to stand on his head to please her. He gets giddy, tells the truth to her, and she explodes into sapodilla trees and exists today in little licorice gumballs. Calvin flies off free. Moral: Even a crow doesn't have to eat crow. Most of the stories have a full-page black-and-white portrait.
- Identifier
- en_US 0811904369
- en_US 5571 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Frederick Fell Publishers
- en_US New York, NY
- Subject
- en_US PS3569.C555 I8 1982 See all items with this value
- en_US Illustrated by Roland Wolff See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books