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Title
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Aesops Fabeln
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Language note: German
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Dimiter Inkiow
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Creator
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Aesop
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Contributor
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Prandl, Reinhold
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:01:42Z
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2001-07
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1999
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:01:42Z
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Date Issued
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1999
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Abstract
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This is a refreshing edition with new fables and good twists on old ones. There are two surprising elements in the opening presentation of Aesop's life, which is carefully declared to be quite uncertain. First, Aesop is supposed to have made the declaration of what is worst and what is noblest in the world to his Master Croesus by sticking his tongue out--and so to have won his freedom. And Croesus is supposed to have falsely accused Aesop of having stolen a golden cup--in order to force him back to being a slave, since the death penalty for robbery for a free man is death but for a slave is at the discretion of his master. Aesop is supposed to have refused and climbed up a peak to throw himself down voluntarily, and many friends and admirers accompanied him (in the climb or in the suicide?). Two small black-and-white designs per fable, and thirty-seven fables. T of C at the front. Athene, not Aphrodite, is the goddess involved in Die Katze lässt das Mausen nicht (11) and the retransformation is announced beforehand as the punishment if she pursues mice after the change. A very nice eagle tries to dissuade the tortoise from flying but cannot do it (15). New to me: Ein Fisch, eine Amsel, ein Krebs und ein Geldbeutel (22); the fable works generally like Krylov's story of three like creatures trying to haul a wagon. Exhausted by trying to pull the wallet or bag away from each other, they decide to divide it up, but then cannot decide where to divide it--until the man who lost it comes and puts it back into his pocket. The fox here asks the crow to sing the beautiful song that he sang yesterday (28), and the crow opens his mouth to ask Which? Two crows put stones into a half-filled milk pitcher (30). An older and a younger fox try to get the grapes (38); when they cannot, the older one convinces the younger that they are sour. The fox in FS (41) is miserly and so immediately regrets his invitation. After considering many possibilities for avoiding feeding the stork, he decides to spread his Haferbrei very thinly on the plates but then to offer himself the same time after time when he has licked his plate clean. The lion's share (46) comes when the group robs all the patrons in a Gasthaus. TH (53) is about the difference between enjoying things along the way as the tortoise does and getting there fast as the hare does; there is no race. The hen lays a golden egg every Sunday (66). There is a touching picture of the dove and ant shaking hands on 70. The Rhodes-jumper (61) has related a whole series of hard-to-believe experiences before he gets to his record-setting leap. Another good illustration shows the dung-beetle straining both arms to push an eagle egg out of the nest (102). New to me, finally, is Der Wolf und der Löwe (108). A wolf, invited to dine with the lion, runs away when he sees the latter's cave, for it is entirely furnished with wolf pelts.
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Identifier
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9783880104839
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3890 (Access ID)
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Language
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dut
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Publisher
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Lentz Verlag
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Munich
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Subject
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PZ14.2.I533 Aes 1999
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole