Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

en_US B&N Signature Edition

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Introduction and Notes by Edward W. Clayton

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Griset, Ernest Henry

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:49Z

en_US 2013-03

en_US 2012

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:49Z

Date Issued

en_US 2012

Abstract

en_US Barnes and Noble did a Classic Edition in 2003 that presented V.S. Vernon Jones' and Arthur Rackham's Aesop. Now here is a new effort by Barnes and Noble, nicely done. Griset's illustrations, so often dark and poorly printed, are well presented here. I have tried to pin the texts down to a known author, but I cannot find the source, and there is none acknowledged here. Of course one great advantage of this book is that it is inexpensive. Where does one find a well-bound book with a dust-jacket for $6.98? Further, the book has a good introduction and good suggestions for pursuing study of Aesop. There are notes and an AI at the end of the fables, besides a list of illustrations and a chronology at the book's beginning. Here is its biggest surprise: it refers twice to the Carlson Fable Collection! In fact, this collection gets the book's first footnote, and it comes with the book's first sentence! The note itself is on 231. Readers are also referred to the collection on 239 when Clayton discusses presentations of fables in other media.

Identifier

en_US 9781435136304

en_US 8922 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84129

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Barnes and Noble; Sterling Publishing Company

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 C53 2012 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