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Title
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The World's Best Short Stories: Anthology and Criticism: Volume IV: Fables and Tales
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Volume 4 of 10
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Editorial Board of Roth Publishing
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Creator
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The Editorial Board, Roth Publishing, Inc
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Contributor
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Szelle, Jerrilyn (Introduction)
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Date
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2016-01-25T20:11:18Z
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2012-03
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1991
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T20:11:18Z
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Date Issued
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1991
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Abstract
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Here is an anthology of which I had not known. The book contains a large collection of stories and story-types. First comes a section of fables and tales from oral traditions. A brief overview of this section suggests to me that there are far more non-fables than fables here. A second section contains fables and tales from Great Collections, starting with Aesop and Panchatantra. A third section is devoted to modern writers, from Hans Christian Andersen to Isaac Bashevis Singer. Except for the works of Joel Chandler Harris, I again suspect that there are few fables here. In the introduction to the fables of Aesop, there is a sentence that either presents new information of which I was unaware or else gets some Aesopic history terribly wrong: During the fifth century B.C., the Greek philosopher Phaedrus was a particular devotee of the collection, and used the stories to illustrate his principles. I wonder if the last six volumes of the series ever got published.
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Identifier
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9780896094000 (set)
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7718 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Roth Publishing
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Great Neck, NY
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Subject
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PN3373.W76 1989
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Collection
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole