Aesop: The Complete Fables

Title

en_US Aesop: The Complete Fables

Description

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Chinese

en_US Second printing?

en_US Translated by Olivia and Robert Temple

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Temple, Robert (Introduction)

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:38Z

en_US 2010-10

en_US 2008

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:38Z

Date Issued

en_US 2002

Abstract

en_US Here is an apparent second printing in 2008 of the Chinese translation from 2002 of Penguin's new edition of Aesop done in 1998 by Olivia and Robert Temple. The work includes Robert Temple's extensive introduction to this translation. This book adds an element that the original had lacked: a T of C at the beginning. There is a short afterword in Chinese on 385-7. The English appears on left-hand pages. The Chinese translation and a rare note or two appear on the right-hand pages. This Chinese collection shows excellent political correctness. It contains 357 fables, not 358, and they are ordered according to the Temples' order. A bit of sleuthing easily unearths the excluded fable: The Chariot of Hermes and the Arabs (#112 on 87 in the Temples' edition). This fable involves a racial slur. For more about the book by the Temples, consult my comment on their 1998 edition or my review of it for Classical Outlook. There are no illustrations here other than the FG illustration that appears both on the front cover and on the title-page.

Identifier

en_US 7274 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82547

Publisher

en_US Yilin Publishing House

en_US Tongzhou

Subject

en_US PA3855.C5 L57 2002 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole