A Selection of World's Great Fables

Title

en_US A Selection of World's Great Fables

Description

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Chinese

en_US First edition

en_US Li Changshan Li Changshan

Creator

en_US No Author

Date

2016-01-25T20:10:16Z

en_US 2011-09

en_US 2009

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:10:16Z

Date Issued

en_US 2009

Abstract

en_US Ninety-three fables with English on left-hand and Chinese on right-hand pages. The same illustration occurs on all the upper left pages: it looks to me like a Byzantine church mosaic featuring an angel flanked by two saints, with horses and riders below. On all the upper right pages is an apparently Egyptian painting of a human, a staff, and a crane. That same picture occurs in larger format after the opening T of C and before the text section of the book. On the book's cover is a colored medieval medallion of a woman and maid with attending animals, including a unicorn. As the eBay advertisement for the book proclaims, This book not only collects the great fables in Panchatantra and Aesop's Fables, but also the works of Lafontaine, Lessing and Krylov etc. That seems an accurate description. Some of the fables are new to me, e.g., Sparrow and Elephant (24). In The Bear and the Fox (36), is it not more likely that the fox would say to the bear Oh! that you would refrain from eating the living and not the dead than that he would say, as he does here, Oh! that you would eat the living and not the dead? There are ninety-three fables on 145 pages.

Identifier

en_US 7520 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82786

Publisher

en_US China Publishing Group, China Translation and Publishing Corporation

en_US Beijing

Subject

en_US PN989.C5Y5 2009

en_US Aesop and others

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole