Aesop Confounded: Tales and Fables old and new.

Title

en_US Aesop Confounded: Tales and Fables old and new.

Description

en_US #48 of 50

en_US Vincent Torre

Creator

en_US Torre, Vincent See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Torre, Vincent

Date

2016-01-25T16:08:34Z

en_US 1995-04

en_US 1954

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:08:34Z

Date Issued

en_US 1954

Abstract

en_US Four of the booklet's eleven stories are identified as fables. The suggestion in the title is that we have anti-fables here. Most of the stories work that way, in fact. Thus the moral to Little Red Hen is Always try to get away with as little work as you can and to Buttercup Hags' bags should be knife-proof. The Cat and the Fox (8) works with a fox, the string of whose bag of tricks had become a tangled knot, to arrive at this moral: Use zippers. The Mice and the Cat (19) proclaims at its end The best-belled Cats are sleeping ones. The Sparrow Whose Tongue Was Cut (23) is strange, as the sparrow suddenly starts talking in mid-story. Perhaps I am missing something! All three of these fables have full-page illustrations. The Camel and the Jackal (27), unillustrated, seems to me to be told straight. Torre's moral for it is A Camel's revenge is dangerous. The Alligator and the Jackal (30) seems to me not to be a fable, nor is it labelled as one. It goes through five phases and involves some preternatural events. I am amazed that Carl found this book for me!

Identifier

en_US 2022 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77583

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US At the Ink-Well Press

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PS3570.O69 1954b See all items with this value

en_US Torre See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole