Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

en_US Kodansha English Library #39

Description

en_US Original language: grc

en_US Ralph F. McCarthy

Creator

en_US Iino, Kazuyoshi

Contributor

en_US Iino, Kazuyoshi

Date

2016-01-25T16:18:03Z

en_US 1996-07

en_US 1996

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:18:03Z

Date Issued

en_US 1988

Abstract

en_US This small paperback has forty numbered fables, told well and idiomatically. There are language notes on each fable at the rear (109-24). The selection of fables here includes many engaging but little-known members of the Aesopic canon. WS is told differently: the traveler puts on his coat while the wind is stepping up its ferocity. The object of the competition is handled well, for the wind says Watch me rip the clothes right off his back (12). The Farmer and His Sons (19) has a novel moral: The will to work is man's greatest treasure. I am surprised and delighted to find The Wild Goats (36) included. The Sickly Lion (44) is cleverly handled. The fox says that he sees the tracks of many going in and that he will wait till he has seen a few come back out. LS is told with just the ass for a partner (58). I find the illustrations delightful. Human hair projecting out to the sides seems to be one of Iino's trademarks here. Another is something between a signature and some fractured letters, generally in a lovely design, put into some free space in the picture. Colored illustrations alternate with black-and-white. I am still puzzled by the cover picture: Why is this boy carrying a fox and a crow? Do not miss the fine CM on 31, the great mice-meeting on 64-5, and FM on 90-1. The book has one last delightful touch: the partial second dust jacket, really a band about two inches high that slips around the book's two covers. As always, the Japanese know how to present something! If someone asked me to recommend a pocket Aesop, this would be a real contender.

Identifier

en_US 4061860399

en_US 2496 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78036

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Kodansha International, Ltd.

en_US Tokyo

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 M33 1988

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole