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)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77817

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