Fables by Walter Brown

Title

en_US Fables by Walter Brown

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Apparent first edition

en_US Walter Brown

Creator

en_US Brown, Walter

Contributor

en_US Bewick, Thomas

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:46Z

en_US 1998-06

en_US 1884

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 1884

Abstract

en_US Bodemann 361.1. As she says, this is the first edition of the text. Forty-one original prose fables. Brown does not offer morals, for the reader often would draw a much better moral than would generally be added. There are twenty-one pleasing cuts at the ends of fables, taken from various of Bewick's works. The criterion for choice, says Bodemann, is the fit of the picture's theme to the application of the fable to human affairs. Sometimes it is hard for me to see the fit. Among the most interesting fables for me are The Buzzard and the Weasel (8); The Fox and the Gamekeeper (22); The Dog and Boys (37); The Two Friends and the Countryman (58); A Lion and other Animals (63); The Rabbit and the Mole (65); and The Fox that had lost his Brush (66). In these I did not know how the fable would come out. For me, Brown is mostly good evidence that it is hard to write a good fable. Many of his are too simple or predictable for me. Women come off poorly in several of these fables, in which they need men to straighten them out. Is that a sentence fragment I read on the bottom of 28? One of the loveliest and largest cuts is of an old man reading a book (35).

Identifier

en_US 3795 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79138

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US S. Grosvenor

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.B7 1884

en_US Walter Brown

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole