The World's Best Short Stories: Anthology and Criticism: Volume IV: Fables and Tales

Title

en_US The World's Best Short Stories: Anthology and Criticism: Volume IV: Fables and Tales

en_US Volume 4 of 10

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Editorial Board of Roth Publishing

Creator

en_US The Editorial Board, Roth Publishing, Inc See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Szelle, Jerrilyn (Introduction)

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:18Z

en_US 2012-03

en_US 1991

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:18Z

Date Issued

en_US 1991

Abstract

en_US Here is an anthology of which I had not known. The book contains a large collection of stories and story-types. First comes a section of fables and tales from oral traditions. A brief overview of this section suggests to me that there are far more non-fables than fables here. A second section contains fables and tales from Great Collections, starting with Aesop and Panchatantra. A third section is devoted to modern writers, from Hans Christian Andersen to Isaac Bashevis Singer. Except for the works of Joel Chandler Harris, I again suspect that there are few fables here. In the introduction to the fables of Aesop, there is a sentence that either presents new information of which I was unaware or else gets some Aesopic history terribly wrong: During the fifth century B.C., the Greek philosopher Phaedrus was a particular devotee of the collection, and used the stories to illustrate his principles. I wonder if the last six volumes of the series ever got published.

Identifier

en_US 9780896094000 (set)

en_US 7718 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82975

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Roth Publishing

en_US Great Neck, NY

Subject

en_US PN3373.W76 1989 See all items with this value

en_US Collection See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole