Item
New Aesop Fables
- Title
- en_US New Aesop Fables
- Description
- Robert W. Long
- Creator
- en_US Long, Robert W. See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Japanese
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:09Z
- 2023-11
- en_US 2005
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:09Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2005
- Abstract
- en_US This book follows up on the author's 2004 book, "Giga: New Aesopian Fables for the 21st Century." The present oversized (8½" x 11") book offers 100 fables with frequent black-and-white illustrations taken from earlier Japanese artists. As was true in the earlier work, the illustrations are not particularly well rendered. I read the first five fables and liked them. "The Woodcutter and the Pig" aptly moralizes "You will be possessed by your possessions if you can not find happiness within yourself" (11)." Grandmother's advice about how to be a great leader only leads to three clowns inviting the advisee to join them (12)! A wife returns after several days away to find the house a mess. She is ready to scold when she learns that it was the needs of her own mother and brother that led to the mess (15-16). Two pitchers argue about their merits but then find themselves sitting on the shelf and getting covered with dust while the woman of the house uses an old metal jug (16-17). The author, who has long lived in Japan, has a lively sense of the wisdom people need!
- Identifier
- en_US 13482 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Lulu Publications
- en_US Morrisville, NC
- Subject
- Robert W. Long See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection