A Hundred Aesop's Fables in Verse

Title

en_US A Hundred Aesop's Fables in Verse

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US By A.M.P. Dawson

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Puig, Anthony

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:43Z

en_US 2000-05

en_US 1957

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:43Z

Date Issued

en_US 1957

Abstract

en_US I am amazed a year later that I paid $58 for a little book like this. No doubt I was following my rule: If you have not seen it before, take it now! The book starts with a T of C and a list of the seventeen black-and-white illustrations. Of these the dust-jacket-illustration of LM (repeated on 29) might be among the best. It is well focused. The illustration for FK (31) suggests their licentiousness well, though it is not mentioned in this version. Here there are three kings of the frogs: log, eel, and heron. The Monkeys and Their Mother (26) is like the original Aesopic cry of wonder at nature's surprises. The Farmer and His Sons (26) is tight and very effective. In The Horse and the Stag (34), the stag is not expelled. Another wonderfully tight little presentation is The Hawk, the Kite and the Pigeons (35). The same is true for The Two Bags (38), which takes just six lines. The boy in BW (40) has fooled the townspeople a dozen times before. The Ass and the Grasshoppers (47) is another paradigm of tightness. I find these texts much more readable than I had expected. Dawson is to be commended in particular for keeping his fables short. He does not indicate where he gets his Aesopic material.

Identifier

en_US 3782 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79129

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US A.M.P. Dawson, Rowlands

en_US North Brighton, Sussex

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 D38 1957 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole