Item
The Tails Book: A Modern Bestiary
- Title
- en_US The Tails Book: A Modern Bestiary
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US First printing
- en_US By Graham Carey
- Creator
- en_US Carey, Graham See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Dahl, Francis
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:50:53Z
- en_US 2007-05
- en_US 1938
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:50:53Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1938
- Abstract
- en_US This book was shaped by a wonderful whim, and I am including it in the collection on a whim. It does not include a fable, but the wisdom it contains is so like the wisdom of fables that I want to hang onto this book for the next person who reads fables. The book is about the variety of uses to which animals with tails put their tails. It is a come to think of it book. Until we think about it, we do not realize the wide variety of uses animals make of their tails. Thus early chapters--each of a few pages, with an initial and one illustration--present the horse's fly-whisker, the cat's amusement, the porcupine's spear-thruster, the dog's smiler, the crocodile's club, and the peacock's way to attract a wife. The book belonged to the Shadowbrook Library in Lenox. This is not the first time that I have bought back a book that once belonged to a Jesuit library!
- Identifier
- en_US 6173 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Sheed & Ward
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US QL791.C3 1938 See all items with this value
- en_US Tangential 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