Item
Skeealyn Aesop: A Selection of Aesop's Fables
- Title
- en_US Skeealyn Aesop: A Selection of Aesop's Fables
- en_US Legacy Reprints
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Manx-Gaellic
- en_US Aesop and Edward Farquhar
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Roeder, Charles (Essayist)
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:54:15Z
- en_US 2008-06
- en_US 2007?
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:54:15Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1901
- Abstract
- en_US This book reprints a book of bilingual fables along with poems by Edward Farquhar of Cregneish. There is nothing in this book that was not in the original, I believe, except for three things: the covers with their simple texts on the front and advertisement for Kessinger on the back; the Publishing Statement on the verso of the title-page, which deals with possible defects arising from reproducing an old book in its original condition; and several items, like Printed in the United States and the ISBN and its barcode, on a page between the last page and the end-paper. Charles Roeder does both the introduction and a sketch of Old Creignish. Pages 30-79 offer twenty-five fables, Manx-Gaelic on the left and English on the right. Do I understand correctly that Manx is the Gaelic spoken on the Isle of Man? The pages themselves are of two types. Most are dark photographic reprints of original pages. The remaining pages have a much lighter background and may have been freshly typeset for this edition. Cregneish, I learn from Wikipedia, is a populated place. Is that a term for what might be less organized than a village or town? The introduction focuses on the Isle of Man and its life in 1901 and on Farquhar, who led a spirited life of fishing and hard drinking. His poems brought him more wormwood than golden opinions (10). Farquhar's poems follow on 13-28. After the fables there is a sketch of life in Old Cregneish, and a listing of old Cregneish family names. Now here is an unusual fable book!
- Identifier
- en_US 6379 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US S.K. Broadbent/Kessinger Publishing
- en_US Douglas, Isle of Man
- Subject
- en_US PA3855.M45 S54 2007 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books