Fifty Famous Fables

Title

en_US Fifty Famous Fables

en_US Graded Classics Series

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Lida Brown McMurry

Creator

en_US McMurry, Lida B.

Date

2016-01-25T16:30:26Z

en_US 2000-01

en_US 1910

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:30:26Z

Date Issued

en_US 1910

Abstract

en_US A first unusual feature of this second grade reader is that its T of C (5-7) is organized by lessons to be learned, like Desirability of Self-Control and Results of a Mean Joke. But these categories are never again mentioned in the book! There are full-page two-color illustrations on 10, 15, 23, 31, 37, 45, 57, 77, 83, 99, 107, and 117. I am surprised to see a book with mostly traditional fables begin with TT; in it, the tortoise's only motivation is indicated by the ducks, to see the world. The evil frog is out from the start to play a joke on the unsuspecting mouse in FM (13); their purpose is to enjoy a holiday, and there is not a first phase in the mouse's territory. The members in the story of the belly are presented as feeders of a great mill (22). The lion is not in on precipitating the quarrel of the four oxen (27). The image of The Hunter and the Farmer (31), a story not often illustrated, is expressive. This version makes a brave show of the wrong-headed telling of The Horse and the Wolf (46), in which the wolf decides to try to convince the horse that the latter must need a doctor. The Woodman and His Ax (63) switches to a roadside, and the woodman does not know where he has lost his ax. The Fox with His Tail Cut Off (65) has the fox hiding his condition from the other foxes; thus it is enough for one of them to rejoinder Before I reply, pray turn yourself around. There is an unusual illustration for The Donkey and His Masters (75), which shows him being lowered by a hoist into the third of his jobs, coal mining. He was already dissatisfied with working for a gardener and a tanner. Switching the order of employers loses the joke that even death cannot free him from getting a beating from the tanner. Apparently the rich man honestly wants to help the poor cobbler here (78). The Wagoner (98) features not Hercules but a worker in a field, who tells the wagoner to put his shoulder to the wheel. New to me are The Leaves and the Roots (42), The Blackbird and the Dove (70), The Ice King (81), The Tyrant Who Became a Just Ruler (113), and The Pug Dog and His Shadow (120). Page 47-8 is half-missing. How have I missed this book in my years of searching? And what a bargain!

Identifier

en_US 3267 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78651

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US B.F. Johnson Publishing Company

en_US Richmond

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.M24 Fi 1910b

en_US Reader

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole