Item
Old Wives' Fables
- Title
- en_US Old Wives' Fables
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Original language: fre
- en_US Edouard Laboulaye
- Creator
- en_US Laboulaye, Édouard See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:37:57Z
- en_US 2014-05
- en_US 1883?
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:37:57Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1883?
- Abstract
- en_US Buying this book was a mistake, prompted by the title. This seems to be a collection of fairy stories or fairytales. I will quote from the archives of The Spectator: very lively stories, with, perhaps, just a touch of satire in them, which would be well away, for a fairy-tale ought to be absolutely simple in intention, and never remind us of questions of the every-day world. Still, they are very amusing, and present us with a great variety of adventure. They come, too, from many parts of the world. Yvon, the hero of the first tale, is a Breton lad ; then there are Bohemian stories, and tales from Italy, Finland, Norway, and Iceland. 'Piff Paff, or the Art of Government : a Tale of All Lands,' is perhaps as clever as any, but then it is of the satirical kind. Listing it here may keep me others from seeking fables in this book.
- Identifier
- en_US 10113 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US George Routledge and Sons
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PN982.L33 1883 See all items with this value
- en_US Tangential 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