Item
Animal Crackers: A Bestial Lexicon
- Title
- en_US Animal Crackers: A Bestial Lexicon
- en_US Penguin Books
- Description
- en_US Robert Hendrickson
- Creator
- en_US Hendrickson, Robert See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:22:51Z
- en_US 1990-04
- en_US 1983
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:22:51Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1983
- Abstract
- en_US A delightful and well researched reference work that is exhaustive--though often inconclusive--in chasing animal phrases back to their origins. Perfect for reading a few pages a day. The Animal Name Index promised in the Introduction seems to be lacking, at least in the paperback. Inclusions from fables that I have noticed include: bell the cat (23), bull and bear markets (36), a cock and bull story (53), cook your goose (60), cry wolf (64), the lion's share (139), a serpent in one's bosom (190), slow and steady wins the race (194), and sour grapes (196). Aesop is not mentioned where he might be as a source for one swallow does not a summer make (162).
- Identifier
- en_US 0670126977 (Viking : hard)
- en_US 865 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Penguin Books
- en_US New York
- Subject
- en_US PE1689.H46 1983 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