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Title
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The Rat & the Convent Dove and other Tales & Fables.
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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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First edition
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Paul Roche
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Creator
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Roche, Paul
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Contributor
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Scott, Anne
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Date
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2016-01-25T15:53:11Z
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1992-03
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1952
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T15:53:11Z
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Date Issued
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1952
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Abstract
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The dust jacket is right: these stories are not to be swallowed in one gulp. I have many reactions. The title piece is a good put-down of the arrogant rat nicely placed in the clash of two worlds. At the other end of the book is A Fable to End Fables: hyena learned at last to forget some wisdom and to begin again to play. So Paul Roche wrote to me in the inscription of his Aesop book: Only one fable at a time! On the negative side, wisdom may overwhelm the story in some cases (The Muck-Beetle's Son and The Frog Who Would A-Wooing Go) or sentimentality may overwhelm it in others (The Grateful Humming-Bird). The best of the stories are The Church Mice and the Pious Lady, The Pig and the Plum Tree, and especially The Barbary Ape. There is some straight Aesop here (The Two Dogs, which is Aesop's DW) and some Aesop bent to new purposes (The Tortoise and the Hare). The Llama's Yak shows good insight: the more he listened to holy things, the more disagreeable he became. Many of these stories remind me of Tony DiMello. Overall, I would say that there is wisdom here but not as much cleverness as I would hope for. Scott's illustrations are curious. The best of them is on 10.
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Identifier
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1385 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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The Hand & Flower Press
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Aldington, Kent
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Subject
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PZ8.2.R58 Rat 1952
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Roche
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole