Das Kleine Fabel-Buch

Title

en_US Das Kleine Fabel-Buch

en_US Die Kleine Reihe

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US James Thurber; aus dem Amerikanischen übertragen von Gerda Richter

Creator

en_US Thurber, James See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Thurber, James

Date

2016-01-25T19:48:56Z

en_US 2001-06

en_US 1959

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:48:56Z

Date Issued

en_US 1959

Abstract

en_US This is a landscape-formatted book with twenty-five fables, most of them occupying one two-page spread. This time I read the first eight and the last of these fables. The beginning and ending stories match: Vom Wasser aufs Land and Vom Land ins Wasser. The first is a creation story whose moral is that ahead of every man there is a woman. The last is the story of lemmings rushing from land into the sea. Every man should be clear before his death, what he is fleeing, where he is fleeing, and why. New to me are, I believe, Der Unternehmungslustige Wolf (7), Die Rose und das Unkraut (9), Zwei Liebespaare (12), and Die Tigerin und Ihr Mann (15). Thurber is always fun and always insightful. I am surprised to find no reference to the various original works from which this booklet must have come. There is a copyright reference to 1956. Might Thurber have put together an English-language booklet like this then? I was lucky to find this book in the window of a bookstore in an overnight visit to Wolfenbüttel. It is strange that I had not seen it before.

Identifier

en_US 5682 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81200

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Fackelträger-Verlag: Schmidt-Küster Gmbh

en_US Hannover

Subject

en_US PS3539.H94 F817 1959 See all items with this value

en_US James Thurber See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole