Aesop's Fables Told to the Children

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables Told to the Children

en_US Told to the Children Series

en_US 0

Description

Lena Dalkeith

Creator

en_US Dalkeith, Lena

Contributor

en_US Praeger, Sophia Rosamund

Date

2022-10-13T19:19:31Z

2020-05

en_US 1906?

Date Available

2022-10-13T19:19:31Z

Date Issued

en_US 1906

Abstract

en_US Here is a second copy of this little classic, with two differences from the first copy bought 28 years ago. Again it is a small format book only forty-seven pages long, with one fable to a page and no added morals. The first difference is that this copy is bound in a blue canvas cover with creases near the spine on both front and back. The second, more surprising difference is that I count here twenty-four pages of the lovely colored illustrations, all (except the frontispiece) containing two illustrations. The other copy has sixteen. These illustrations, as I commented then, might be called "primitive." They are strong and simple, and I like them. The best illustrations include a great frontispiece (and cover) of an old man reading a paper attacked by the friendly ass; the wolf hanged in a sheepskin (facing 16); sleeping girls à la Wilhelm Busch (facing 20); FS (26); MSA (facing 44); and the fat hen with a surprised old woman (facing 44). In '97 I had a chance to analyze its texts. They seem to depend heavily on Croxall and less on James. There is less directly quoted speech than is usual in the fables. One of the best texts is "The Wolf as Piper." In TH, the tortoise seems to undergo a sex change during the race! "The Fox and the Eagle" may be the poorest text, not thought through very well.

Identifier

en_US 12365 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/137860

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US London: T.C. and E.C. Jack/NY: E.P. Dutton and Co.

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A254Da 1906b

Aesop