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Title
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Fifty Fables
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Description
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T(homas) W(illiam) H(odgson) Crosland
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Creator
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Crosland, T. W. H
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Date
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2016-01-25T15:47:34Z
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2008-05
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1899
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T15:47:34Z
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Date Issued
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1899
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Abstract
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Wikipedia has quite an article on Crosland, British author, poet, journalist and friend of royalty. His biography includes mention of his being a fanatical Christian homophobe. He was involved in suits involvilng the homosexuality of Oscar Wilde. Robbie Ross’s biographer calls him a narrow-minded bigot and a right-wing Tory. This pamphlet has lost its binding. It includes the fifty fables on some 32 pages. The fables are sometimes quite Aesopic, as on 8, when Jupiter says to the complaining ass, Have I not already given thee a voice . . . . and heels? I like particularly Happy Thought on 9. A poor man gathers his children around his deathbed and says it gives him joy that his passing will not occasion quarrels, since he has nothing over which they can wrangle. But, father, which of us is to pay for the funeral? Also good is The Way (11). Critics raise a writer onto a pedestal and then throw potsherds at him. On 13, a released slave is asked by the emperor what he would do with twenty pieces of gold. I will go forth and purchase me a slave! T of C at the front.
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Identifier
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9895 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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At the Sign of the Unicorn
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London
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Subject
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PR6005.R69 F5 1899
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T(homas) W(illiam) H(odgson) Crosland
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Pamphlet