Item
365 Successful Fables: The Businessman and the Golden Lion
- Title
- en_US 365 Successful Fables: The Businessman and the Golden Lion
- en_US 365 Successful Fables
- en_US FW 11
- Description
- en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Mandarin Chinese
- en_US Paul Skjervold
- Creator
- en_US No Author See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:36:11Z
- en_US 2012-09
- en_US 2008?
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:36:11Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2008?
- Abstract
- en_US The four fables presented and illustrated in this volume are: The Businessman and the Golden Lion; The Bird’s Beauty Pageant; Father and his Daughters; and The Fox and the Cicada. Again, the morals may not strike us as the most apt. For the first, the moral is You share nothing; you gain nothing. The businessman who encountered the golden lion hesitated to think over whether he would get help. By the time he decided to try to get the golden lion for only himself, the golden lion was gone. I do not remember this fable as among the traditional Aesopic fables. The second fable is surprising in making the ostrich, not a crow, the central figure. A strong wind blows off all the feathers. The strange moral is Murder will out. Who was murdered? Notice the typo in the second fable's title; more than one bird is involved in the pageant. Typical of the art is the double picture on 10-11: the first daughter makes a request that her father pray for rain for her husband's flowers. The good but awkwardly phrased ending to the last fable is Well, Mr. Fox, you won't be cheated if you didn't cheat me first (16).
- Identifier
- en_US 9002 (Access ID)
- Publisher
- en_US You Fu Culture Co. Ltd.
- en_US Taiwan
- Subject
- en_US PZ10.842 .J562 2003 See all items with this value
- en_US Aesop et al 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