Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

en_US Fables

Description

en_US Boots S.A. Pastor

Creator

en_US No Author

Date

2016-01-25T19:13:22Z

en_US 2003-08

en_US 2000?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:13:22Z

Date Issued

en_US 2000?

Abstract

en_US This is one of four pamphlets, all 24 pages in length, which have Fables across their back cover, followed by the same brief description and history of fables. Here TH is pictured on the cover, with surrounding leaves, flowers, birds, butterflies, and insects. The pattern of this frame is the same for all four books, though its colors change from one to the other. There are twelve fables, most told in two-page spreads. The illustration for TH is surprising, since the tortoise seems to be stopped to address the sleeping hare, even though the text assures us that the tortoise never paused (2). AD (4) is told unusually at several points. The pigeon hands the drowning ant a twig. The ant in the second illustration is just smaller than the man's hand! SW (6) is told in the poorer version. The Boot in the Jungle (10) is new to me. Three animals claim that a boot found in the jungle--it was novel to them all--is, respectively, the shell of a fruit, a nest, and a plant with roots. A duck, from experience, informs them about the boot. The bear answers, telling the duck to keep out of it. What he claims cannot be true the bear opines. FG forestalls criticism by starting with the explanation that the fox was different from his clan, since he prefers grapes, not mutton. This moral is new to me: It is good to accept defeat sportingly (13). In the illustrations for FC, the fox uses a microphone with a long cord, and then the raven does the same. The incongruity of the microphone up in the tree with a cord dangling down is striking. The snake that licks the knife (not a file) on 24 falls down unconscious, presumably from loss of blood. None of the four booklets has bibliographical information beyond the publisher's name. I presume that this press is in India.

Identifier

en_US 8171818307

en_US 4638 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80290

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Learners Press Private Ltd.

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.L437 Ae 2000

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole