Aesop's Fables: The Crow and the Serpent and Other Stories

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables: The Crow and the Serpent and Other Stories

en_US Shree Timeless Fables #3

Description

en_US First edition

en_US Retold by Sunita Pant Bansal

Creator

en_US No Author

Date

2016-01-25T15:37:21Z

en_US 2013-12

en_US 2012

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:37:21Z

Date Issued

en_US 2012

Abstract

en_US This book seems to be the third in a series of twenty books, thirteen of which present Aesop's fables. That is surprising, since the book contains sixty fables. Most series present only some one hundred fables; this series must be presenting 780 of them! A special feature of this book is its purple titles and morals. Also, each fable has an animated black-and-white cartoon. There is a T of C on 5-7. A test of the first few fables finds the tellings sometimes slipshod or at least curious. In The Monkeys and Their Mother (10), the story goes out of its way to make the point that a neglected baby usually grows weak and dies. In this case, he becomes strong. There is no crisis and no flight from a predator. The mother asks the weaker baby how he grew strong. I have a strong will to live. Close enough, but the old fable is gone. Similarly, Jupiter gives a strange answer to Minerva when she chooses the olive: To avoid any quarrels, we chose trees that don't bear any fruits (17). I think the original fable stresses Athena's attention to effectiveness and practicality while other gods are attracted only to beauty. Jupiter's strange comment undercuts the surprising wisdom of her choice. The cover features a man in a boat with a snake, crow, and lamb on the shore. The title-fable is on 27 and does not include either the lamb or the man in the boat. The back cover lists the other volumes in the Shree Timeless Fables series. Is that a bald Aesop on the title-page and in the cover's boat?

Identifier

en_US 10005 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76005

Publisher

en_US Shree Book Centre

en_US Mumbai, India

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.B36Ae 2012

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole