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Title
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Eton Fables
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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By Cyril Alington
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Creator
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Alington, Cyril
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:01:51Z
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2001-08
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1921
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:01:51Z
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Date Issued
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1921
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Abstract
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These are fourteen talks given apparently starting in 1917 to the students at Eton. They are chapel talks, some closest I think to what we might call exhortations and others really a form of parable. They often have an imaginative character. The author, a former headmaster at Eton, will describe himself as dreaming or as hearing the founder (King Henry VI) speaking. Perhaps the closest to a fable is The Two Palaces (52) about two servants who, commanded to build the king a palace, take alternative approaches. The first builds himself a house and waits to learn what the king wants. The second has only a shack for himself but has started a magnificent palace for the king. At their best, these sermons work from a good metaphor or image. At their worst, they labor a bit.
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Identifier
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3915 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Longmans Green and Co.,
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London
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Subject
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PR6001.L5 E8 1921
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Cyril Alington
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole