Animal Fairy Stories: More Than 100 Enchanting Tales

Title

en_US Animal Fairy Stories: More Than 100 Enchanting Tales

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: cze

en_US Retold by Alena Benesová. Translated by Ruth Shepherd

Creator

en_US Benešová, Alena

Contributor

en_US Franta, Karel

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:06Z

en_US 2000-07

en_US 1985

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:06Z

Date Issued

en_US 1982

Abstract

en_US ©Artia, Prague 1982. A wonderful book with many fables and other stories. The T of C at the beginning gives categories for the stories by author and geography. There are three main groups of fables: ten identified as by Aesop, nine as by La Fontaine, and twelve as from Bidpai. I find other fables in groups like American Negro (e.g., The Cock and the Fox on 111); Arabian (e.g., The Jackal and His Gratitude on 64, The Jackal, the Hyena and the Well on 138, and The Lion, the Mosquito and the Spider on 166); and African (e.g., The Lion and the Three Bulls on 156). The book gives a curious title to The Fox and the Lion Cub (44), since this is an old lion! New to me is the Bidpai fable The Monkey Who Was Too Clever (46). The turtle proves to him how much worse a lie is than a wound by hanging roast meat from a tree and alerting the monkey to it. This version substitutes a jackal for a rabbit in The Lion and the Jackal (91), the story about the competitor in the well. New to me is the fable labeled as Aesopic How the Cat and the Mouse Danced Together (150). Also represented are Algeria, Australia, China, Czechoslovakia, England, Europe, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Persia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Siberia, Slovenia, and Spain. The art is what I have come to expect from Artia: detailed, pleasant, colorful but seldom highly insightful.

Identifier

en_US 0861781481

en_US 3968 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79308

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Cathay Books Limited

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ10.3.B46 An 1982

en_US Collection

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole