Modern Fables Rendered in Verse

Title

en_US Modern Fables Rendered in Verse

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US By Nolie Mumey

Creator

en_US Mumey, Nolie See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Stearns, Virginia Hardin

Date

2016-01-25T19:59:14Z

en_US 2009-04

en_US 1971

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:59:14Z

Date Issued

en_US 1971

Abstract

en_US I just googled Nolie Mumey and found that he was a prolific writer--and surgeon, aviator, philosopher, and humanitarian. He died in 1984. In 1987, Norma Mumey (his daughter perhaps?) wrote a life of him once offered on Amazon.com but apparently now out of print. Some of his volumes seem to be selling on the net for several hundred dollars. My cost of less than a dollar for this book testifies to the thrill of shopping on Ebay! The book itself is a curious production. Its cover is partly florid cloth with a sticky embossed tape glued on declaring Fables. The spine reads only Fables and Mumey. The five points at which the binding is sewn are marked by long cuts into the page that resemble worm-holes. The printing is variable and thus sometimes faint. The spine is starting to disintegrate. There are 169 thick pages after a beginning T of C that lists the seventy-seven verse fables. I read the first ten or fifteen fables. They represent standard peasant wisdom. Readers are warned to watch out for traps, to avoid greed, not to play with fire, to resist envy. Man and Horse (37) fleshes out the proverb about looking a gift horse in the mouth. In some fables like the book's last one, the title and illustration both refer to an image, but the verse simply tells a story (168-69). The illustration shows a man and woman holding hands; it reads There is a lid which will fit almost every pot. The verse of Lid and Pot tells of the not-popular girl in a family meeting an ungainly man at church. They fall in love and are married.

Identifier

en_US 6800 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82108

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Range Press

en_US Denver

Subject

en_US PS3525.U447 M6 1971 See all items with this value

en_US Nolie Mumey See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole