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Title
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Gobble-Up Stories
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
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Signed by Jack Carr
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By Oscar Mandel
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Creator
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Carr, Jack
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Contributor
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Carr, Jack
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:29:14Z
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2003-07
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1966
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:29:14Z
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Date Issued
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1966
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Abstract
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This book contains 90 pages of clever ironic stories illustrated with humorous drawings. In the main, they are Thurberesque but not as tight as Thurber's. Several parody or work off of traditional fables. Thus FC is given a new moral showing that the crow was satisfied to pay the cheese for a compliment (27). Whereas a fish usually pleads to be thrown back, the minnow here pleads to be kept (30). To throw him back would be an insult! TMCM is replayed on 43: Freedom…is merely the slavery we happen to enjoy. The last story, John O'Fountain's Apology (87), is an eloquent incident from LaFontaine's life in which he argues with Madame de la Sablière that the question is not about the size of the literary kingdom that he rules but whether he rules it happily and well. Other true fables are The Perfidious Spider (21) and Two Blind Men (62). Do not miss The Journey of a Cow (5), The Rich Ibis and the Pauper Thrush (13), or The Flattered Hippopotamus (25).
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Identifier
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5179 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Bruce Humphries
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Boston, MA
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Subject
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PS3563.A44 G6 1966
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole