Item
The Riddle of the Black Knight and Other Tales and Fables Based on the Gesta Romanorum.
- Title
- en_US The Riddle of the Black Knight and Other Tales and Fables Based on the Gesta Romanorum.
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Second printing
- en_US Thomas B. Leekley
- Creator
- en_US Leekley, Thomas B. See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Troyer, Johannes
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:19:07Z
- en_US 1999-11
- en_US 1957
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:19:07Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1957
- Abstract
- en_US Six fables are grouped together and introduced as such. The introduction (aptly titled What Sort of Book Is This?) observes very few writers who have read in the Gesta have left it without thinking, 'What fine stories! Perhaps I can tell them better!' And many have proved that they could (x). The Dog and the Donkey is told at a leisurely pace, with three attempts by the donkey and an unusual conclusion to the story: the master, berated by his wife for breaking a chair, befriends the donkey! On Just Being Yourself is a replay of The Tiger and the Brahmin: a tiger threatens a kind elephant, and a lion intervenes. It plays on whether a being ever does more than just act out its nature. Only The Dog and the Donkey works off of a familiar Aesopic subject.
- Identifier
- en_US 2764 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Vanguard Press
- en_US NY
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.1.L37 Ri 1957 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books