Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US Original language: grc

en_US Fourth printing

en_US Translated by V.S. Vernon Jones

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Rackham, Arthur

en_US Ashliman, D.L. (Introduction)( Notes)

Date

2016-01-25T19:50:37Z

en_US 2006-08

en_US 2003

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:50:37Z

Date Issued

en_US 2003

Abstract

en_US This is a useful inexpensive representation of the 1912 Heinemann original. It adds to that edition a good list of nineteen proverbial morals on its very first two pages. It also offers an accurate time-line of historical events important for the history of fable (ix-xii). Ashliman's introduction supplants the Chesterton introduction in the original. An appendix gives Aarne-Thompson numbers for the fables (249-51). There are also useful questions and quotations on 252-57. The book reproduces at least many of Arthur Rackham's illustrations. The colored illustrations suffer by being reproduced in black-and-white. Rackham's original black-and-white work comes through well. There are 283 numbered fables on 243 pages. There is a T of C at the book's beginning and an AI at its end. This would make a suitable basic textbook for people studying twentieth-century editions of fables. Barnes & Noble does a worthy service by reprinting this book and outfitting it with so many study helps!

Identifier

en_US 9781593080624

en_US 6114 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81521

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Barnes & Noble Classics

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US PA3855 .E5 2003

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole