Skeealyn Aesop: A Selection of Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Skeealyn Aesop: A Selection of Aesop's Fables

en_US Legacy Reprints

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Manx-Gaellic

en_US Aesop and Edward Farquhar

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Roeder, Charles (Essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:15Z

en_US 2008-06

en_US 2007?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:15Z

Date Issued

en_US 1901

Abstract

en_US This book reprints a book of bilingual fables along with poems by Edward Farquhar of Cregneish. There is nothing in this book that was not in the original, I believe, except for three things: the covers with their simple texts on the front and advertisement for Kessinger on the back; the Publishing Statement on the verso of the title-page, which deals with possible defects arising from reproducing an old book in its original condition; and several items, like Printed in the United States and the ISBN and its barcode, on a page between the last page and the end-paper. Charles Roeder does both the introduction and a sketch of Old Creignish. Pages 30-79 offer twenty-five fables, Manx-Gaelic on the left and English on the right. Do I understand correctly that Manx is the Gaelic spoken on the Isle of Man? The pages themselves are of two types. Most are dark photographic reprints of original pages. The remaining pages have a much lighter background and may have been freshly typeset for this edition. Cregneish, I learn from Wikipedia, is a populated place. Is that a term for what might be less organized than a village or town? The introduction focuses on the Isle of Man and its life in 1901 and on Farquhar, who led a spirited life of fishing and hard drinking. His poems brought him more wormwood than golden opinions (10). Farquhar's poems follow on 13-28. After the fables there is a sketch of life in Old Cregneish, and a listing of old Cregneish family names. Now here is an unusual fable book!

Identifier

en_US 6379 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81704

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US S.K. Broadbent/Kessinger Publishing

en_US Douglas, Isle of Man

Subject

en_US PA3855.M45 S54 2007

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole