The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce

Title

en_US The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Edited, with Introduction and Commentary, by S.T. Joshi

Creator

en_US Bierce, Ambrose

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:16Z

en_US 2000-05

en_US 2000

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:16Z

Date Issued

en_US 2000

Abstract

en_US This book represents a great contribution to this collection. First, it brings together all of Bierce's fables. Secondly, it adds several hundred fables to what is available of Bierce's work. Its first main section comprises The Fables of Zambri, the Parsee. I was not even aware of these 135 fables. After that, we find the several sections of Fantastic Fables. Then there are Uncollected Fables, which run here from Item #448 to Item #846. A commentary and a chronology round out the volume. This book will help me and others for years to come, besides delighting us whenever we have a chance to read some of Bierce's work. For this round, I read the Zambri fables. Though I gather that they are early work and considered rudimentary, I still enjoy them. A number of them are already good parodies of traditional Aesop: items 33, 35, 71, and 82. Otherwise my prizes go to items 15, 19, 44, 54, 60, 70, 73, 74, 75, and 111. I especially praise 21, 61, and 95. The introduction is helpful, though I might have hoped for even more than its fifteen pages.

Identifier

en_US 0814208428 (alk. paper)

en_US 3999 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79339

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Ohio State University Press

en_US Columbus, OH

Subject

en_US PS1097 .A6 2000

en_US Ambrose Bierce

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole