Kriloff's Fables

Title

en_US Kriloff's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US C. Fillingham Coxwell

Creator

en_US Coxwell, C. Fillingham (translator)

Contributor

en_US Billinghurst, Percy J.

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:44Z

en_US 1993-08

en_US 1920?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:44Z

Date Issued

en_US 1920

Abstract

en_US Eighty-six fables. The two versions have different cover and spine material, title on spine, endpapers, page size, page cut, and tint on the top of the pages. That is, the version with London on its spine is larger, has as its spine title Fables by Ivàn Krilòff, Coxwell, London, and has rough-cut pages tinted red on top. The version with Kegan Paul on its spine has a space block-printed on 156. Both have misprints on 73 ( it's for its ) and 141 ( I for It ). The introduction proclaims that LaFontaine remains a star of the first magnitude: lively, elegant, witty and arch; but it finds Kriloff more versatile, forceful and humorous than LaFontaine. The introduction includes an extensive biography. The plates facing 43, 51, and 108 are taken from Billinghurst, but with Russian titles added! The Wolves, the Dogs, and the Sheep illustration on 51 does not fit Krilòff's adjoining fable The Wolves and the Sheep. The illustration on 129 ( The Three Peasants ) is from elsewhere, like the fable itself. T of C at the beginning. Notes. AI on 173-6. There may be some meaning lost in getting the verse to work in English. For example, I do not think someone could understand The Chest (VIII) in this version. I gather from other versions that the point is that the expert never tries simply to open the lid! The fable touches on the experience of those who cannot get a computer to run because they have not plugged it in! Ditto on The Nightingales (XVIII). I had to go back to Ralston to understand it. The Parishioner (LXXIV) is still a mystery to me. The Fly and the Bee (69) is an answer to the tradition, I think; here the fly gets the last word.

Identifier

en_US 1827 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77393

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US E.P. Dutton & co.

en_US London

Subject

en_US PG3337.K7 C68 1920

en_US Krilof

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole