Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

en_US Cosmos Readers 13

Description

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: Bilingual English/Chinese

en_US Original language: eng

en_US by Raphael Valerio

Creator

en_US Li, Si

Date

2016-01-25T19:01:54Z

en_US 2001-08

en_US 2001

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:01:54Z

Date Issued

en_US 2001

Abstract

en_US This book came to me because it first came to Prof. Tom Lawler as a gift from his student Yin P. Rex Hung, and Tom asked if he could pass it on for the collection. It is a beautiful paperback that matches 136 of Handford's versions, including his titles, with--so I presume--Chinese translations. The latter come first as a group; then there is a second title-page, followed by a second section, paginated just as the first was. The result is that a given fable has the same page number in both sections. Simple cartoon-like black-and-white tail-piece designs pop up frequently along the way in either section, like the thief crawling in through the window on 11 in the Chinese section. These cartoons are perhaps more concentrated in the first, Chinese section. The second, English section often gives a number of notes on vocabulary right with the text of a fable. This book is one of those lovely paperbound Chinese works that has a dust jacket. Here it presents a near-pointillist colored FG on the front and a golden profile of the same on the back. At the back of the book is a page of extensive bibliographical information. I wonder what selection criteria were used to get down from Handford's 207 fables to the 136 used here. The book is inscribed by Rex to me on 6-30-01.

Identifier

en_US 9570404345

en_US 3925 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79265

Language

en_US chi

Publisher

en_US Cosmos Culture Ltd.

en_US Taibei Shi

Subject

en_US PA3855.C5 L53 2001

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole