Modern Fables and Parables or Moral Truth in a Nutshell

Title

en_US Modern Fables and Parables or Moral Truth in a Nutshell

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US W.S. Harris

Creator

en_US Harris, W.S.

Contributor

en_US Krafft, Paul

Date

2016-01-25T16:19:09Z

en_US 1997-09

en_US 1903

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:19:09Z

Date Issued

en_US 1903

Abstract

en_US This book seemed so promising! I have to admit that I am disappointed, even though it is a genuine curiosity, and I am delighted to have it. The cover features an embossed Heighway illustration of FS. The book includes 111 stories. Eighty-two of them are illustrated. The beginning has a T of C, as well as a list of illustrations. Two sections of Harris' preface strike me: The great majority of these fables and parables are entirely new and were wrought out with careful analysis and patient toil. No patience or time was spared to make these many illustrations the best that can be found in any book of its kind in the world. Wow! One example of an adapted fable is The Vain Dog, FC all over again (328). The stories disappoint me because they are exaggerated or contrary to nature. Thus a hireling works so hard that he drops dead as he finishes meeting a challenge with a lucrative prize (47). A homeowner dynamites a rat hole and thus destroys the floor of his house (51)! A hen pecks her favorite eggs and so spoils them (108). A fish tires out a bird in a fight (109). A camel buys a dynamite-laden candle to see his way through the night (159). For all this criticism, there is something naturally fetching in this book for me. Not the least of its attractions is the good sense one finds in a moral like this: When you measure yourself with your own hand, count twelive inches for a foot and then deduct one-half (53). The Bug and the Capitalist (26) presents social criticism of capitalism that I would not have expected here.

Identifier

en_US 2773 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78306

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Brethren Publishing House

en_US Elgin, IL

Subject

en_US PS3515.A76 M63 1903

en_US Harris

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole