The Picture Treasury of World Fables 1

Title

en_US The Picture Treasury of World Fables 1

en_US The Great Picture Treasury of World Literary Masterpieces for Children

en_US PTWF 1

Description

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Chinese

en_US Yan Wenjing?

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-22T21:18:50Z

en_US 2015-09

en_US 1989

Date Available

2016-01-22T21:18:50Z

Date Issued

en_US 1989

Abstract

en_US Here is the first volume of an ambitious set of five. This comprehensive presentation is quite an undertaking! This Book One covers Aesop, Phaedrus, and Sadi. It offers some 84 fables on 368 pages. There is an English T of C on 14-16. I believe that one refers correctly to the Chinese here as Simplified Chinese. Each story is attributed to a particular writer, adapter, translator, and illustrator. The cartoon approach fits the fables well. One notes the struggles of foreigners to deal well with English in the sometimes crazy syllabification of words in their narrow columns. So, for example, house is split into ho and use on 59. Mistakes happen too: Cavern on 60 becomes carven. The illustration styles vary considerably. A favorite set of illustrations, though the texts are not the best, develops The Deer and the Lion (54-58) by Zhao Qinguo. The same artist uses another fetching style for DS (107-112). On 83, I enjoy the tortoise who is not yet condemned to carry around his home. Another strong style is that of Sun Aignuo in A Man and a Lion Walk Together (212-215). A good example of a distinctive style and of the linguistic problems is An Arrogant Sportsman (267-270). This sportsman took part in a five-item race on Rode Island. Human beings here are often pictured in the style of figures on Greek vases and statues. One such style appears in Two Enemies (271-274). This volume features FC in color on both of its covers. Set was reproduced, I believe, in 2008 in similar but not identical form

Identifier

en_US 10566 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75180

Publisher

en_US Shandong Friendship Press

en_US Beijing

Subject

en_US PZ10.842.S45 1989

en_US Aesop and others

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole