Item
Sparks of Light from a Fabulist's Diamond Mine: A Series of 240 Original Fables with Short Morals [Cover: Original Fables]
- Title
- en_US Sparks of Light from a Fabulist's Diamond Mine: A Series of 240 Original Fables with Short Morals [Cover: Original Fables]
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US By H. Berkeley Score
- Creator
- en_US Score, H. Berkeley See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:11:37Z
- en_US 1997-06
- en_US 1894
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:11:37Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1894
- Abstract
- en_US I read the first fifteen of the 240 fables here. They are fables, and they are original. I find them heavily moral. Thus The Spider and the Moth (4) has the spider seeing the moth's infatuation with the flame and lamenting our infatuation with sin. As Score writes in the preface, it is not at all easy to create a fable. He mentions having discarded some twenty of those he had written when he would discover that something very like each of these had already been written by someone else. Though these are genuine fables, they tend to the long, predictable, and tedious. Once you see fable as a way of inculcating morality, I am afraid that the fables tend to turn out this way. I am touched by Plutus Disgusted (13). The god of wealth, disguised as a beggar, visits rich people and is rejected by them, but is taken in by a poor family. He of course rewards them richly. Those who have the least in this world generally give the most. There is a T of C at the front and a list of subscribers at the back. Note that the title on the spine of the book is Original Fables.
- Identifier
- en_US 4319 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US T. Hutton
- en_US Ormskirk, UK
- Subject
- en_US PN982.S46 1894 See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books