Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US Language note: English

en_US Aesop and Xun wang fei ji

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:37Z

en_US 2010-10

en_US 2009

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:37Z

Date Issued

en_US 2009

Abstract

en_US One Chinese bookshop on eBay proclaims of this book This book includes two hundred stories. There are many famous stories, for example, wolf coming, farmer and snake, and so on. This book causes great effect on Chinese people. It is translated into 100 languages and more English editions. I am delighted that fables are having a great effect on Chinese people! In fact there are here 243 fables on 256 pages, with a T of C at the beginning. As is frequent in present-day Chinese paperbacks, text-page foredges are decorated with an identical repeating pattern and the covers are heavy paper folded back to create a flap. The page layout of this book uses a distinctive format. The title of the fable in English is at the top center of each page around a design and set of Chinese characters. A consecutive number of this fable and its title in Chinese and in English is centered above three elements. First, at the left, there is a standard design including two Chinese characters inside of circles; around these are animals and human figures in silhouette. To the right of this standard element is a set of about three to six lines of Chinese characters. Under that text is the English text of the fable. At the outside bottom is a page number in a circle with a printer's design outside of that circle. The texts here seem to be taken from the Joseph Jacobs edition of 1894. There are a few printer's designs along the way, perhaps echoing the particular fable. An example presents the crab and its mother on 41.

Identifier

en_US 7272 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82545

Publisher

en_US Tsinghua University Press

en_US Miyun

Subject

en_US PA3855.C6 W36 2009 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole