Chr. F. Gellert's sämtliche Fabeln und Erzählungen in drei Büchern

Title

en_US Chr. F. Gellert's sämtliche Fabeln und Erzählungen in drei Büchern

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Neue ausgabe

en_US Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Creator

en_US Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott

Contributor

en_US Leutemann, H.

Date

2016-01-25T19:49:47Z

en_US 1998-07

en_US 1910?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:49:47Z

Date Issued

en_US 1910

Abstract

en_US Nach den ältesten Ausgaben. There is a beginning T of C. I decided for this Gellert edition to examine the first eight illustrated fables. Der Tanzbär (2) presents a bear who has had to dance for his living; now he breaks away and rejoins the bears. He shows them his new skills. They try to do the same and fail. Soon they ask him to leave. Show skill and people will talk about you, and soon envy will follow, and your talent will become a crime. Also illustrated is Das Gespenst (17): you can use poetry, even or especially bad poetry, to drive away ghosts! Der Hund (22) tells of a miserly dog that, even in death, will not give up his treasured bones. Der Bettler (27) gives us a beggar; with a sword in his hand and a plea for compassion, he is like the writer who pays compliments and says that he trusts our sense of justice--but also uses threats. Die zärtliche Frau (39) is about a woman who at her husband's deathbed cries out Death, come and take me! When death shows up and asks if someone called, she points to her husband and says that he called. Damokles (53) is straightforward and true to the ancient anecdote. Der grüne Esel (61) is the story of instant notoriety and fast movement into being passé. Die kranke Frau (71) presents a woman who cannot be healed by doctors but only by a tailor's new dress! Because of its good illustration, I gave myself a bonus: Der beherzte Entschluss (127). It is worth it! A condemned man finds an old spinster pleading for him. The judge says that he will spare him if he will marry her. The prisoner choses death and asks the judge to kill him now. This is a straightforward volume with nothing but four pages of Vorwort, the T of C, texts, and illustrations. The binding has cracked between VIII and 1. The cover shows The Bears and the Apes.

Identifier

en_US 5880 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81362

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Hahn'sche Buchandlung

en_US Hannover

Subject

en_US PT1883.F32 1910

en_US Gellert

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole