Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

en_US Dandelion Books

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First U.S. edition

en_US Retold by Alexander Williams

Creator

en_US Moffett, Robin See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Moffett, Robin

Date

2016-01-25T16:29:43Z

en_US 1997-12

en_US 1979

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:29:43Z

Date Issued

en_US 1979

Abstract

en_US I had had this book on my want list for years and ordered it without knowing that this was the book I was seeking. For another irony, note that I had to send to Australia to get this first U.S. edition! It is a stiff-covered medium-sized children's book presenting thirteen numbered fables in rather ho-hum fashion, with black-and-gold illustrations. In #2, WSC, the shepherd still does not know this is a wolf when he kills him. #4, FG, has a good new moral: A fool often despises what he can't get. The woman with eye problems (#5) is rich and makes a point of having witnesses to the original deal that she would pay only for restored eyesight. The best illustrations are for #8: first a laughing heifer and then a laughing ox. It has the proverbial moral He who laughs last laughs best. The surprising moral of #10, The Lion in Love, is Even the wise can be made foolish by love. GGE (#11) shows fourteen golden eggs in a bowl. MM (#12) has as its moral Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Identifier

en_US 897990838

en_US 3088 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78495

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Dandelion Press Inc.,

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.W677 Ae 1979 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole