Item
Peacock's Feather
- Title
- en_US Peacock's Feather
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US #60 of 249 signed copies
- en_US George S. Hellman
- Creator
- en_US Hellman, George S. See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:18:54Z
- en_US 1997-05
- en_US 1931
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:18:54Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1931
- Abstract
- en_US One of the strangest and loveliest finds ever. For some reason, I was wandering in a section that seemed to have little definition in a good, funky, basement uptown bookstore. For some reason, I started paging through this book and noticed that chapters seemed to be named after fables. Then I realized that it was a fictional life of Aesop! I had never heard of it. A week later, I found it listed among rare books at the Library of Congress! It is a delightful and creative reading experience. Hellman creates an astonishingly novel persona for Aesop, but fits it well with the traditional information about his life. The book is very fragile. Its gold endpapers and charming peacock-feather cover are both becoming separated. There is a strange nude frontispiece of Atossa as she appeared before Aesop. Wonders will never cease!
- Identifier
- en_US 2709 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US The Bobbs-Merrill company
- en_US Indianapolis, IN
- Subject
- en_US PS3515.E34 P4 1931 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