Item
Fables Nouvelles
- Title
- en_US Fables Nouvelles
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US Eugénie et Laure Fiot
- Creator
- en_US Fiot, Eugénie See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:15:25Z
- en_US 1996-01
- en_US 1858
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:15:25Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1858
- Abstract
- en_US I do not know when I have had more of an experience of watching a book fall apart before my eyes. This book began in poor condition, with its cover peeling. It proceeded to peel right off in a few weeks! Now, five months later, I finally have a chance to look up this pair of siblings in Fabulists French, and I find that they are not there. The book contains eight books of seventeen fables each and a ninth of sixteen fables. Their purpose is spelled out clearly in the preface: to accustom readers (young and old) to the ideas of order and work and to inspire sentiments of virtue, devotion, and humanity. I tried two fables. III 4 has a father teaching his boy what the Aesopic tradition might call the lesson of the filberts and III 5 has a fox and cat outraged over a wolf's devouring of a lamb, from which the fox turns to destroying a chicken and the cat a mouse.…
- Identifier
- en_US 2394 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Librairie ecclésiastique, classique et élémentaire de Ch. Fouraut
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- en_US PQ2244.F76 F33 1858 See all items with this value
- en_US Fiot 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