The Riddle of the Black Knight and Other Tales and Fables Based on the Gesta Romanorum.

Title

en_US The Riddle of the Black Knight and Other Tales and Fables Based on the Gesta Romanorum.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Apparent first printing

en_US Thomas B. Leekley

Creator

en_US Leekley, Thomas B.

Contributor

en_US Troyer, Johannes

Date

2016-01-25T19:07:19Z

en_US 1997-08

en_US 1957

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:07:19Z

Date Issued

en_US 1957

Abstract

en_US This is a first printing, without dust-jacket, of a book already included in the collection from its second printing. As I wrote there, six fables are grouped together and introduced as such. The introduction (aptly titled What Sort of Book Is This?) observes very few writers who have read in the Gesta have left it without thinking, 'What fine stories! Perhaps I can tell them better!' And many have proved that they could (x). The Dog and the Donkey is told at a leisurely pace, with three attempts by the donkey and an unusual conclusion to the story: the master, berated by his wife for breaking a chair, befriends the donkey! On Just Being Yourself is a replay of The Tiger and the Brahmin: a tiger threatens a kind elephant, and a lion intervenes. It plays on whether a being ever does more than just act out its nature. Only The Dog and the Donkey works off of a familiar Aesopic subject.

Identifier

en_US 9360 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79767

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Vanguard Press

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.L37 Ri 1957

en_US Collection

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole