Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

en_US Barnes & Noble Classics

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Original language: grc

en_US Third printing

en_US V.S. Vernon Jones

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Rackham, Arthur

en_US Ashliman, D.L. (Essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T20:03:46Z

en_US 2010-07

en_US 2005

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:03:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 2005

Abstract

en_US Barnes & Noble Classics apparently first published this book in 2003, perhaps in paperback. At first I thought this just another reprint -- and there have been many -- of Jones and Rackham's 1912 Heineman edition. This book is more than that, and my hat is off to Barnes & Noble for what they have added to that original book. The pre-title pages offer a list of nineteen well-known Aesopic proverbs. A chronology places Aesop and reports about him in time and traces key steps in the publication of fables as we know them. Ashliman's Introduction then gives a good sense of fable, its history, and its contributions. The opening T of C numbers the 284 fables that follow. Many at least of Rackham's black-and-white illustrations are included, though none of his colored illustrations. A glossary starts on 245. A helpful appendix on 249-51 gives the Aarne-Thompson Type Numbers for many fables. Further elements give a sense of some works inspired by Aesop's fables, of comments and questions on Aesop's fables, and of further reading. Last of all is an AI of the fables. All of this is hard to beat for a list-price of $7.95!

Identifier

en_US 9781593083304

en_US 7120 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82397

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Barnes & Noble Books

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 2005 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