Aesop's Fables (Chinese)

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables (Chinese)

Description

en_US Language note: Chinese

en_US Anne Bodart, translated by Alice B. Toklas

Creator

en_US Aesop

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:14Z

en_US 2001-05

en_US 2000

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:14Z

Date Issued

en_US 1989

Abstract

en_US There are several curious features about this lovely paperback gift that Andreas brought back from Hong Kong. The first, of course, is that there are about ten words of English in the whole book! The second is that there is a picture of Aesop a few pages into the book, if of course one starts from what we would know as the back of the book. I have not seen this image of Aesop before. This picture seems to be followed by a T of C, which indicates 79 items with their page numbers. There is then at least one black-and-white illustration on almost every pair of pages. Among my favorites is that of the sorrowing trees on 36; presumably they regret giving up the wood for the hatchet-handle. The illustration for SW on 60 is different from what one sees in Western books. The final curiosity for me is: Why are we looking at the rear ends of two animals on the beach on the cover? Are they hippos? The child hippo seems to carry a little purse….

Identifier

en_US 9629230445 (pbk.)

en_US 3991 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79331

Language

en_US chi

Publisher

en_US Shan bian chu ban she

en_US Hong Kong

Subject

en_US PA3855.C4 Y5 1989

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole