Sämtliche Schriften des Herrn J.W. Gleims: Erster/Zweyter/Dritter Theil

Title

en_US Sämtliche Schriften des Herrn J.W. Gleims: Erster/Zweyter/Dritter Theil

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Ivan Krylov; Übertragung von Ferdinand Löwe

Creator

en_US Gleim, Johann Wilhelm Ludewig See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:49:50Z

en_US 1996-07

en_US 1779

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:49:50Z

Date Issued

en_US 1779

Abstract

en_US Mit Röm. Kaiserl. Allergnädigsten Privilegio. Here are three separately paginated parts of a six-part work bound together. The date of publication of the version of the first part here is 1793. Both the second and third parts were published in 1779. The first part contains Lieder. The second part has two books of fables and three romances. The third part has a play, The Death of Adam. There is a T of C for the second part on 108-110 of that part. As it shows, there are twenty-five fables in each of the two books of fables, and they are found on 7-78 there. I read the first ten fables of Book 1. They are short, comprehensible, pointed, and sometimes sentimental. Quotations are printed in larger, bold typeface. In I 4 the fox describes to the lion how the ass is badmouthing him in various ways. The lion answers Let him say what he wants. I do not pay attention to what an ass says. I 9 is an example of a sentimental fable. A poor man cuts a piece from his last loaf of bread and gives it to his son with tears in his eyes. The son gives it back and tells him not to cry. He then cuts a second piece and finds money pouring out of the loaf. He calls on the baker to return his money to him. The baker explains that a benefactor left that loaf for some poor family. The fable ends with the son telling the father not to cry. I 12 has a good story of a bunny seeing a stag and proclaiming that, with his long ears like the stag's horns, they are alike. An ass hears him and says Yes, we are all three alike. The stag just goes back into the woods. In II 9, a stag admires his horns and despises his legs, according to the traditional fable. However, in this version he gets away from the obstructing branches in the woods and learns to value the useful above the beautiful. According to Karl Wolfgang Becker, Johann Wilhelm Gleim lived 1719-1803. His first book of fables was published in 1755. He published several books of fables, the last sixteen fables in 1795. Becker uses as his source a 1786 Original-Ausgabe by Friedrich Maurer in Berlin. Apparently that work, as opposed to this one, restricted itself to fables, specifically the fables which Gleim had published up to that date. Here in 1779 we have two books of fables as part of a larger set of works.

Identifier

en_US 5889 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81371

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Bey Johann Georg Fleischhauer

en_US Reutlingen

Subject

en_US PT1888.A1 1779 See all items with this value

en_US Johann Wilhelm Gleim See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole