Item
Gobble-Up Stories
- Title
- en_US Gobble-Up Stories
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Signed by Jack Carr
- en_US By Oscar Mandel
- Creator
- en_US Carr, Jack See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Carr, Jack
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:29:14Z
- en_US 2003-07
- en_US 1966
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:29:14Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1966
- Abstract
- en_US This book contains 90 pages of clever ironic stories illustrated with humorous drawings. In the main, they are Thurberesque but not as tight as Thurber's. Several parody or work off of traditional fables. Thus FC is given a new moral showing that the crow was satisfied to pay the cheese for a compliment (27). Whereas a fish usually pleads to be thrown back, the minnow here pleads to be kept (30). To throw him back would be an insult! TMCM is replayed on 43: Freedom…is merely the slavery we happen to enjoy. The last story, John O'Fountain's Apology (87), is an eloquent incident from LaFontaine's life in which he argues with Madame de la Sablière that the question is not about the size of the literary kingdom that he rules but whether he rules it happily and well. Other true fables are The Perfidious Spider (21) and Two Blind Men (62). Do not miss The Journey of a Cow (5), The Rich Ibis and the Pauper Thrush (13), or The Flattered Hippopotamus (25).
- Identifier
- en_US 5179 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Bruce Humphries
- en_US Boston, MA
- Subject
- en_US PS3563.A44 G6 1966 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