The Modest Raindrop and Other Fables For Old and Young Translated from the Persian

Title

en_US The Modest Raindrop and Other Fables For Old and Young Translated from the Persian

Description

H.G. Keene; A New Edition edited by his daughter Katherine Keene

Creator

en_US Keene, H.G. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Fry, Samuel

Date

2019-04-09T19:34:36Z

2018-11

en_US 1880

Date Available

2019-04-09T19:34:36Z

Date Issued

en_US 1880

Abstract

en_US This collection was first published by H.G. Keene in 1833. There is a lovely touch of pietas here as his daughter edits a new offering of her father's fables. For me it is a pleasure to run into old friends, usually in their original context a part of a larger story, but here isolated and well presented. Those old friends include fables like "The Fox and the "Drum" (14); "The Heron and the Crab" (40); and "The Crow and the Monkeys" (65). The title fable comes last. A drop of water proudly joins the ocean and then takes refuge in an oyster, where he later becomes a pearl. The author hopes that his little book "may find shelter in the recesses of some poetic mind, and come forth again in a future age to receive the applause of its transmuted lustre" (79). The illustrations are sometimes quite dramatic, as in "The Camel and the Ass" (57).

Identifier

en_US 11561 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/122240

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US David Bogue

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR4839.K25M63 1880 See all items with this value

Persian See all items with this value