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The Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three Thousand Years. By the Authors and Orators of All Countries. Vol. III
- Title
- en_US The Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three Thousand Years. By the Authors and Orators of All Countries. Vol. III
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Henry Coppée
- Creator
- en_US Coppée, Henry See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:19:30Z
- en_US 1998-05
- en_US 1895
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:19:30Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1895
- Abstract
- en_US Included in this tome is a very short section Fables from the Arabian of Lokman the Sage, translated by the editor (440-1). Four good fables are presented. The first pits a lion against two bulls; in most other versions there are three or four bulls. The second has the lion inviting the bull to dinner for lamb, where the bull sees an immense cooking-pot. The third tells well the story of the lamenting pig, though all the animals are on the back of a beast of burden and not, as usual, in a wagon. There is a strange moral to this fable: Those who are overwhelmed by the crimes and misdemeanors they have committed should know the fatal destiny reserved for them. What crime did the pig commit? The fourth has a bramble, when fed and cared for, taking over a whole garden. The congeries represented by a book like this has to strike most of us as unusual. The next few things after Lokman are a selection from Oedipus at Colonus, some poetry, an engraving, and Chemical Combination, Decomposition and Affinity. Wow!
- Identifier
- en_US 2958 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Carson & Simpson
- en_US Philadelphia, PA
- Subject
- en_US PN6013.C7 1895 See all items with this value
- en_US Lokman 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