Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Retold and Illustrated by Alice Shirley

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Shirley, Alice

Date

2016-01-25T20:00:19Z

en_US 2010-08

en_US 2009

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:00:19Z

Date Issued

en_US 2009

Abstract

en_US This new Aesop is big and bold. Its cover has the texture of leather. Its art is made chiefly of ink-blots skillfully rendered as various creatures. Among the best of the illustrations are the peacock on 16, FG on 22, and the cicadas on 152-3. Most fables finish on the page on which they start. The texts show two tendencies. Positively, they are often snappy, particularly in their fresh morals. Thus the lamb says to the clumsy shearer Your indecision is complete torture (71). The last line of The Flies and the Honey (81) is The flies realised their greed had brought them to a sticky end. Negatively, some stories get lost. The House Full of Mice (10), for example, needs the flour or the bag that has made this story interesting in other versions. Similarly, The Cicada and the Fox needs the clever reference to dung to be more than it is here. There is a T of C at the beginning. I find it curious that the two versions of this book that I bought have a difference of some $1.20 in price, and they come from the same seller.

Identifier

en_US 9781843651185 (hc)

en_US 7044 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82321

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Pavilion Children's Books: Avona Books Company

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.S556 Ae 2009 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole