Fabeln und Parabeln der Weltliteratur

Title

en_US Fabeln und Parabeln der Weltliteratur

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Erstes bis viertes Tausend

en_US Gesammelt uind mit literar-historischen Einführungen herausgegeben von Theodor Etzel

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T15:39:00Z

en_US 2014-08

en_US 1907

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:39:00Z

Date Issued

en_US 1907

Abstract

en_US I previously knew Etzel's work through a 1990 edition by Bechtermünz Verlag, which -- as is now clear to me -- took Etzel's classic text collection and added illustrations, making a small-format book into a large one. Now here is a lovely first edition of that original work. As I wrote then, this book is a library in itself. I have kept separate notes on the sampling of fables I enjoyed in going through the book and on its good illustrations. Parable does not get the representation one might expect from the title; a few items are included that are labelled as parables. The translations wisely follow the original's choice of prose or verse. The heart of this book is, appropriately, German fable, with over 300 pages and some fifty-three fabulists. Orientals receive forty pages, and western ancients thirty pages before the Germans, and five other literatures and two continents get eighty pages after them. Fables labelled Aesop here do not always have the texts which one would find in, say, Perry's Aesopica. I am not sure of Etzel's source for them.

Identifier

en_US 10324 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76310

Publisher

en_US Max Hesses Verlag

en_US Leipzig

Subject

en_US PN985 .S3 1907 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop and others See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole