Anna Karenin, Volume III; Fables and Stories for Children; Miscellaneous Articles

Title

en_US Anna Karenin, Volume III; Fables and Stories for Children; Miscellaneous Articles

en_US Illustrated Sterling Edition

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: rus

en_US First edition

en_US By Count Lev N. Tolstoy, Translated from the Original Russian and edited by Professor Leo Wiener

Creator

en_US Tolstoy, Leo See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:43Z

en_US 1998-02

en_US 1904

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:43Z

Date Issued

en_US 1904

Abstract

en_US Two volumes seem to be bound together here, at least according to the publisher's pagination. After Anna Karenin finishes on 411, there is a new T of C including Aesop's Fables on 3, Adaptations and Imitations of Hindoo Fables on 19, and Stories for Children on 39. Among the forty-five texts in Aesop's Fables there is only one surprise. A polecat substitutes for a snake in licking his own blood from a file (3). Among the thirty-two fables of the Hindoo section, the snake's head and tail separate, and the tail immediately falls into a hole and is lost (19). Many of these are new to me--and good! Enjoy these stories for starters: the thread so fine that it cannot be seen (19); the servant who when shopping has to take a bite out of each pear to know if they are all good (22); the hen who does not know how to raise her chicks and so asks them to go back into their shells (34); and the goat who sees the cow being rewarded for standing still during milking and so stands still the next day when he is supposed to move (36). Among the Stories for Children one finds The Peasant and the Cucumbers (40) but no others that might qualify as fables. The five illustrations listed on vii are concerned with other literature than the fables.

Identifier

en_US 4098 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79424

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Dana Estes & Company, Publishers

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PG3366.A6 W5 1904 See all items with this value

en_US Leo Tolstoy See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole