Huckaby's Fables & other likely stories

Title

en_US Huckaby's Fables & other likely stories

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Gerald Huckaby

Creator

en_US Huckaby, Gerald See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Huckaby?, Gerald

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:59Z

en_US 2001-01

en_US 1981

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:59Z

Date Issued

en_US 1981

Abstract

en_US The twenty-six fables here are, I would say, adventures in free and whimsical thinking. Mattress and blanket ended their relationship when someone came between them, and there are still icy sheets of coldness between them. A house zooms around the world every night and disappears when the family in it finally catches it in flight. I am taken with The Ghost Who Didn't Believe in Ghosts (15), perhaps because this ghost with almost-hair and almost-eyes speaks in almost-sentences. The Fox and the Fable (43) goes through FG but then has the grapes fall before the fox to be gobbled up immediately. And they are sour! The fox screams at this injustice, and a sweet bunch of grapes falls before him. He goes home, bites his vixen, and never opens another book. My prize in the whole collection goes to The Virtuous Piglet (47) about the piglet who made a virtue of the necessity of eating. This funny fable approaches Thurberesque quality and includes various endings and various moralizations. The initial of this story--a pig with halo forming an O--is the illustration for the book's title-page and dust jacket. Here is either a poignant misprint for the required hear or a clever pun in the last sentence of 58, from The Boulder on the Beach, which is about the joy and value of being here. Each fable has a simple initial, and there is a FG illustration at the bottom of the T of C. I find the account of Huckaby on the back flyleaf genuinely entertaining. Gerald Huckaby was born in 1933, and has pretty much wasted every year since.

Identifier

en_US 0895241412

en_US 3633 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78991

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Cherry Lane Books

en_US Port Chester, NY

Subject

en_US PS3558.U28 H82 1981 See all items with this value

en_US Gerald Huckaby See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole