Fifty Fables

Title

en_US Fifty Fables

Description

en_US T(homas) W(illiam) H(odgson) Crosland

Creator

en_US Crosland, T. W. H See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T15:47:34Z

en_US 2008-05

en_US 1899

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:47:34Z

Date Issued

en_US 1899

Abstract

en_US Wikipedia has quite an article on Crosland, British author, poet, journalist and friend of royalty. His biography includes mention of his being a fanatical Christian homophobe. He was involved in suits involvilng the homosexuality of Oscar Wilde. Robbie Ross’s biographer calls him a narrow-minded bigot and a right-wing Tory. This pamphlet has lost its binding. It includes the fifty fables on some 32 pages. The fables are sometimes quite Aesopic, as on 8, when Jupiter says to the complaining ass, Have I not already given thee a voice . . . . and heels? I like particularly Happy Thought on 9. A poor man gathers his children around his deathbed and says it gives him joy that his passing will not occasion quarrels, since he has nothing over which they can wrangle. But, father, which of us is to pay for the funeral? Also good is The Way (11). Critics raise a writer onto a pedestal and then throw potsherds at him. On 13, a released slave is asked by the emperor what he would do with twenty pieces of gold. I will go forth and purchase me a slave! T of C at the front.

Identifier

en_US 9895 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76705

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US At the Sign of the Unicorn

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR6005.R69 F5 1899 See all items with this value

en_US T(homas) W(illiam) H(odgson) Crosland See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

Pamphlet