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)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81579

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