365 Successful Fables: The Golden Ax and the Silver Ax

Title

en_US 365 Successful Fables: The Golden Ax and the Silver Ax

en_US 365 Successful Fables

en_US FW 4

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

2016-01-25T20:36:13Z

en_US 2012-09

en_US 2008?

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:36:13Z

Date Issued

en_US 2008

Abstract

en_US The four fables presented and illustrated in this volume are: The Golden Ax and the Silver Ax; The Lion and the Three Bulls; The Dog, The Rooster and The Fox; and The Maid and the Rooster. In the first fable, the place of Hermes or a water-spirit is taken by an old man. Perhaps because every fable in this series is limited to four pages, the old man does not dive down for the woodcutter's iron ax. After two honest rounds, he simply gives the man the golden and silver axes. The key in the second fable is not geographic but persuasive; he is not rearranging the bulls physically but rather setting them against each other. To each of the three differently-colored bulls, the lion speaks ill of the other two. The foolish believe rumors; the wise confirm them. Does not the fable show that the clever create rumors? The third fable hinges well on the question from the rooster to the fox: Could you wake up my friend down there for me? Keep calm when you are in danger is a surprising moral for this fable. The fourth fable reduces the two maids of the traditional fable to one. This is the fourth fable to use as a confusing moral One could suffer for his wisdom (16).

Identifier

en_US 9008 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84212

Publisher

en_US You Fu Culture Co. Ltd.

en_US Taiwan

Subject

en_US PN989.C5 J56 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