Fables for Children

Title

en_US Fables for Children

en_US Geoffrey Cumberlege

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Irene Pearl

Creator

en_US Pearl, Irene See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Vise, Jennetta

Date

2016-01-25T16:19:24Z

en_US 1998-09

en_US 1948

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:19:24Z

Date Issued

en_US 1948

Abstract

en_US These fifeen fables are unusual in filling out traditional fables. The author's note says of her childhood experience of well-known fables The shrewd lessons they had to teach were often above my head, and I wanted to know much more about the Fox, the Cock, the Donkey and the others. Thus, as the flyleaf says, the characters are allowed to linger, to talk of this and that, and show themselves in their true colours in a more leisurely way than they previously had time to do. Several of the stories here (including The Dog, the Cat, and the Thieving Wolf; The Miser; The Travellers; and The Sailor and the Servant) are new fables created by the author. FG turns into a story of a shotgun death in a fox-pit dug beneath the fruit-bearing vine. The donkey ends up not starving but playing the cymbals in the animals' orchestra (20). FK is true to the traditional tale but adds new motivation for the original request for a king (21-22). CP becomes a story of camels and a well (25). The perplexed father is lucky: it rains at night, with sunshine in the morning, and so both of his daughters are happy. There are simple black-and-white designs for each fable.

Identifier

en_US 2846 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78370

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Oxford University Press

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.P43 Fab 1948 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole