Fables

Title

en_US Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Theodore Francis Powys

Creator

en_US Powys, Theodore Francis

Date

2016-01-25T16:13:47Z

en_US 1994-10

en_US 1929

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:13:47Z

Date Issued

en_US 1929

Abstract

en_US Nineteen stories that are really tales, I would say, about talking sub-human creatures rather than fables in the tradition, invoked by the dust jacket, of Aesop and La Fontaine. The dust jacket says aptly The common note is a sort of smiling cynicism. I read five and found them various, offbeat, and engaging. The Withered Leaf and the Green (31) is a poignant classic confrontation of young and old with well-etched attitudes given to each. The Seaweed and the Cuckoo-Clock (45) is a bizarre piece about Miss Gibbs who marries unlike things to each other, like these two objects. The Ass and the Rabbit (65) is a good commentary on the problem of a creature whose life gets complicated and mixed up by thinking he is God. It contains this fine sardonic remark: There are some who have even doubted that the hermit ever lived at all upon the moor, for during all the time that he lived--if, indeed, he did live--he caused no scandal that could rightfully give him the smallest place in the remembrance of a man (67). Though I do not think these belong in the history of fable, I intend to read more.

Identifier

en_US 2073 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77634

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Viking press

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PR6031.O873 F3 1929

en_US Powys

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole