The Illustrated Book of World Fables

Title

en_US The Illustrated Book of World Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Yong Yap Cotterell

Creator

en_US Cotterall, Yong Yap

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T15:24:29Z

en_US 1979

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:24:29Z

Date Issued

en_US 1979

Abstract

en_US A curious book containing one hundred fables. The introduction gives a key: following Robert Louis Stevenson--second only to Aesop in representation here--the collector finds that the key to fable is its suggestiveness of other dimensions. This position is taken in deliberate reaction to a Victorian sense of fable as morally uplifting. The selection of fables made according to this criterion is thus various and surprising, including specimens that the introduction itself recognizes as close to parables (e.g., Chinese fables), that develop the story for its own sake (e.g., medieval fabliaux), or that aim only at humor (e.g., Poggio's renaissance facetiae). The result leaves the reader to resolve for himself what may be meant ; this is not a comforting collection of moral tales. Artists run from Ulm to Thurber through Gheeraerts, Rackham, Condé, Hellé, lots of Eastern art, and E.R. Herman (new to me). The selection is impressive. New stories I find good include: Forgetfulness (35), Two Sons (65), The Prescient Goldsmith (65), Worth (82), The Servant and the Master (97), and The Father and the Son (139). AI at the back. Acknowledgements on 159: Aesop is from V.S. Vernon Jones (unacknowledged) and Handford, the latter fables marked by their catchy but obscure titles.

Identifier

en_US 1183 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75967

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Book Club Associates

en_US London

Subject

en_US PN982 .I44 1979

en_US Aesop and others

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole