Item
Round-the-Clock Stories
- Title
- en_US Round-the-Clock Stories
- en_US Gallery Books
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Kenneth Gray
- Creator
- en_US Gray, Kenneth See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Hawkins, Colin
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:08:18Z
- en_US 1994-08
- en_US 1984
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:08:18Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1984
- Abstract
- en_US This book's particular charm lies in the steady commentary offered by figures in its illustrations. The first of the twelve stories in the book is MSA. This version has unusual features: the donkey comes along to carry home their purchases, the father dives into the river to cut the donkey's forefeet free, and the son gets a black eye where the donkey kicks him. I find a problem in this fable that seems to me typical for the texts here: they tend to mock themselves, as when the man tells his son to listen only when people advise constructively. What does `constructively' mean? asks the son. It means that next time we go to market we take your mother with us to carry our purchases, and leave the donkey at home. The Honest Woodcutter (46) is a version of the old fable about the man in a hole with a lion, monkey, and snake.
- Identifier
- en_US 831775122
- en_US 1956 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Gallery Books
- en_US New York, NY
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.G73 Rou 1984 See all items with this value
- en_US Collection See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books