Item
Aesop's Fables
- Title
- en_US Aesop's Fables
- Description
- en_US Original language: grc
- en_US Fourth printing
- en_US Translated by V.S. Vernon Jones
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Rackham, Arthur
- en_US Ashliman, D.L. (Introduction)( Notes)
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:50:37Z
- en_US 2006-08
- en_US 2003
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:50:37Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2003
- Abstract
- en_US This is a useful inexpensive representation of the 1912 Heinemann original. It adds to that edition a good list of nineteen proverbial morals on its very first two pages. It also offers an accurate time-line of historical events important for the history of fable (ix-xii). Ashliman's introduction supplants the Chesterton introduction in the original. An appendix gives Aarne-Thompson numbers for the fables (249-51). There are also useful questions and quotations on 252-57. The book reproduces at least many of Arthur Rackham's illustrations. The colored illustrations suffer by being reproduced in black-and-white. Rackham's original black-and-white work comes through well. There are 283 numbered fables on 243 pages. There is a T of C at the book's beginning and an AI at its end. This would make a suitable basic textbook for people studying twentieth-century editions of fables. Barnes & Noble does a worthy service by reprinting this book and outfitting it with so many study helps!
- Identifier
- en_US 9781593080624
- en_US 6114 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Barnes & Noble Classics
- en_US New York, NY
- Subject
- en_US PA3855 .E5 2003 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