12 Folk and Fairy Tales

Title

en_US 12 Folk and Fairy Tales

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Selected by Penelope Coquet

Creator

en_US Coquet, Penelope See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Durand, Paul

Date

2016-01-25T20:36:50Z

en_US 2013-07

en_US 1970

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:36:50Z

Date Issued

en_US 1970

Abstract

en_US Here is an earlier copy of a book already in the collection. Originally published by Deux Coqs d'Or in Paris and Mondadori in Verona, perhaps both in 1968. I am always curious which stories I would call fables appear in collections labelled as folk or fairy tales. Here I find three. The Nightingale (15) tells of a real nightingale who teaches a Chinese emperor a lesson about what is most important in life. This nightingale, previously neglected and forgotten, is contrasted with the mechanical nightingale on which the emperor foolishly had relied. The Flying Tortoise (33) is the traditional story of TT. Here onlookers praise the tortoise as a wonderful fellow. He called back, 'I always said I was remarkable.' I wonder if The Clever Farmer (56) might be considered a fable, even though it has several phases. A farmer with a duck that is his starving family's favorite does some clever trading and impressing of the squire to end up with a whole sack of grain in exchange for giving up the favorite duck. Simple colored illustrations grace each story.

Identifier

en_US 9137 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84335

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Golden Press: Western Publishing Company

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.C797 Tw 1970 See all items with this value

en_US Collection See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole