Item
Humorous Fables
- Title
- en_US Humorous Fables
- en_US Little Blue Book No. 668
- Description
- en_US Mark Twain and E. Haldeman-Julius
- Creator
- en_US Twain, Mark See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:14:45Z
- en_US 1996-04
- en_US 1940?
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:14:45Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1940
- Abstract
- en_US After years of searching, I have found this booklet! I do not know how many shoeboxes of Little Blue Books I have searched in antique stores hoping to find #668! There are first two contrasting fables about bad and good little boys, wherein the humor arises--in the manner of Thurber--from the fact that the opposite happens from what is said in the books, in this case Sunday school books. Then there is a set of three fables about an expedition of (small) forest creatures. They discover first a set of train tracks and, soon after a train passes, a bottle of liquor cast off of the train. The fun here is in how they get everything wrong in their science. In the second, they discover a ghost-town and museum. The third begins with a hilarious translation of a human document and closes with a titillating find, a reference by these extinct men to lower animals, whatever those might be! The last fable is Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning (49), a funny piece about a hypochondriac wife and her obliging husband.
- Identifier
- en_US 2259 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Haldemen-Julius
- en_US Girard, KS
- Subject
- en_US PS1322.H825 1940 See all items with this value
- en_US Twain 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