Item
Fables, Vol. II
- Title
- en_US Fables, Vol. II
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- Alexis Rousset
- Creator
- en_US Rousset, Alexis See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Various
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:39Z
- 2025-03
- en_US 1854?
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:39Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1854
- Abstract
- en_US This second volume, covering Books VI-X on 288 pages, continues the mysteries of the first. It is missing 121-242 but includes at that point 121-172 of the first volume. The same pattern concerning illustrations continues. Some overlap, but – though this volume has more than that – many here are not there and vice versa. This volume thus includes a good image that should have appeared in the first volume for fox and dog, here facing (mispaginated) 127. At VII 3 (60) a pagan makes an idol of clay so that he can break it when it does not answer his prayers. "Bear and Monkey" (VII 16 on 91) is a good fable. A bear who finds a hammer learns to begin and keep working in order to craft a dwelling. VIII 1 (103) has a lively image for "The Bored Man and Three Guests." In X 18 (247) a pig will not associate with a donkey because it is beneath him. Finally in X 28 (268) we find the engaging fable of the beggar and the booklover. The former begs to spend time in the library because "I am like those books": "Je suis jaune, flétri, couvert d'un parchemin; mais j'ai vécu beaucoup, et je sais tant de choses!" 285 pages with a T of C at the end.
- Identifier
- en_US 13703 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US L. Maison?
- Subject
- Alexis Rousset See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection