The Little Governor in Fableland

Title

en_US The Little Governor in Fableland

en_US Christmas Stocking Series

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US John Howard Jewett

Creator

en_US Jewett, John Howard See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Farnsworth, Ethel N.

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:45Z

en_US 2012-03

en_US 1907

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:45Z

Date Issued

en_US 1907

Abstract

en_US This sturdy book in excellent condition is extra tall (over 7½) and extra thin (less than 4). In its three chapters, we find a story strong in its sense of social contrasts. The two children of the governor up the cliffs have an encounter with two poorer children from among the clam-diggers along the shore. Earnest, one of the latter, saves Fortunato, the son of the governor. In the meantime, the well-to-do children go to school with the Kindly Hermit and hear songs of the Blithebird. These two, we learn, have been planning together new ways to teach old truths (10). In a second chapter, the Kindly Hermit tells a story to the two governor's children that turns out to be a fable pointing them the way to what to do. A young man urges his giant father to overcome the dragon that hinders some good gypsies from enjoying the good life. Fortunato becomes governor for a day and enacts the fable's program. He has a school built for the children of the clam-diggers and has their houses spruced up. My biggest surprise in all of this is the strong sense of social class; Fortunato and Gentilita need to become conscious of those poor clam-diggers and gypsies and be generous to them. The story, despite its ideology, centers really rather in Fortunato and Gentilita learning to be fellow human beings just like those clam-digger children -- and, God forbid, even like gypsies!

Identifier

en_US 7807 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83062

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Frederick A. Stokes Company

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.J484 Lit 1907 See all items with this value

en_US John Howard Jewett See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole