Fables and Folk Stories, Part I

Title

en_US Fables and Folk Stories, Part I

en_US Riverside Literature Series #47

Description

en_US Horace E. Scudder

Creator

en_US Scudder, Horace Elisha

Date

2016-01-25T15:54:22Z

en_US 1993-07

en_US 1890

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:54:22Z

Date Issued

en_US 1882

Abstract

en_US This little ninety-six-page pamphlet mixes fables and folk stories together, thirty-five of the former and eight of the latter, often in several parts. Scudder draws upon his already published Book of Fables and adds others (vii). The introduction gives the reader a sense of what people thought of fables late in the nineteenth century: they are for both the boy and the man; they speak of animals; they bolster prudence, which is a beginning of virtue; they begin a child's acquaintance with permanent literature. Different: the mouse runs into the lion's mouth (41), and the goose lays a golden egg every day of the year (66). New to me: A Country Fellow and the River (28) and The Arab and his Camel (81), which plays out each of the phases including the camel's suggestion that the Arab leave the tent. I have wanted for years to find an edition of fables in this or other small-book formats, and I am amazed at last to have found a pair! T of C on ix-x.

Identifier

en_US 1623 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77192

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Houghton Mifflin Company

en_US Boston

Subject

en_US PZ8.S39 Fa 1890a

en_US Aesop and others

Type

en_US Book, Whole