Item
American Aesop: Negro and Other Humor.
- Title
- en_US American Aesop: Negro and Other Humor.
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US William Pickens
- Creator
- en_US Pickens, William See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:52:36Z
- en_US 1992-09
- en_US 1926
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:52:36Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1926
- Abstract
- en_US Not even close as a book of Aesopic material! The introduction does not seem to mention either Aesop or fable. What is the connection with Aesop? Perhaps just witty (?) stories? As it is, what we have here is a collection of rather dim-witted Black, Irish, and Jewish stories. Three surprises near the end are salvageable. The first is a story (140) of a Sunday school answer to the question Who was Esau? -- The guy who wuz the author of a book of fables, but went an' sold his copyright fer a bottle o' potash! The second is a delightful exchange of Thomas More and Erasmus in Latin on 147-8. The last is Aesop's lion subdued by man in art story done in a contemporary conversation between a mother and son (181-2). The things I find!
- Identifier
- en_US 1276 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US The Jordan & More press
- en_US Boston, MA
- Subject
- en_US PN6161.P58 1926 See all items with this value
- en_US Tangential book 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