Fables from Afar

Title

en_US Fables from Afar

en_US Aldine Supplementary Readers

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US By Catherine T. Bryce

Creator

en_US Bryce, Catherine T. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Budell, Ada

Date

2016-01-25T16:30:52Z

en_US 1998-11

en_US 1910

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:30:52Z

Date Issued

en_US 1910

Abstract

en_US Most of these stories are taken from fable sources outside the normal Western tradition, though perhaps a quarter are traditional Aesopic material. My Abracadabra copy has Third Grade pencilled in, and that is about the appropriate age for the stories. The fifty-eight fables are divided into four sections (Tales from the East, Tales from the West, and so on), but I am unable to sense the division or identify the sources. We read on iii It is in the hope that you will enjoy them as much as the children of long ago in India, China, Japan, and the Isles of the Sea that this little collection of the old, old stories has been made. Tales from the West include a number of La Fontaine fables. Among my favorites overall are A Dumb Witness (9), The Fox and the Goose (113), and The Ant and the Glowworm (115). Here a gnat stings a lion, and the lion never even notices it (79)! See Perseverance (162) for one of those stories that proves that He who earnestly wills can do anything. Here the poor man finally marries the princess. Each illustration includes one color.

Identifier

en_US 3379 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78754

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Newson & Company

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.B78 Fa 1910 See all items with this value

en_US Reader See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole