World Tales

Title

en_US World Tales

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Idries Shah

Creator

en_US Shah, Idries See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:20Z

en_US 1996-06

en_US 1979

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:20Z

Date Issued

en_US 1979

Abstract

en_US A wild array of sixty-five stories and illustrations by various contemporary artists. Ten items mention or bear upon Aesop. They include Don't Count Your Chickens (18), which claims that it is eggs which are smashed in Aesop; The Hawk and the Nightingale (20, from Hesiod); The Grateful Animals and The Ungrateful Man (68, from Kalila and Dimna); The Blind Ones and The Matter of the Elephant (84); The Brahmin's Wife and the Mongoose (106); The Lamb with the Golden Fleece (142, from the Jatakas); The Ass in the Pantherskin (162); The Serpent (170); The Fox and the Hedgehog (236); and The Slowest May Win The Race (252). Page 236 shows one of the more egregious errors I have seen in a while: the claim is made that Caxton published 850 years after Aesop (620 B.C.). Someone was not paying attention to his/her BC's and AD's. The extra copy unfortunately has some pencilling and other markings (2, 150, 152-3, and 244); in it 110 is torn.

Identifier

en_US 015199434X

en_US 1728 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77296

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

en_US New York

Subject

en_US GR76.W67 See all items with this value

en_US Collection See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole