Kriloff's Original Fables

Title

en_US Kriloff's Original Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: rus

en_US Translated by I. Henry Harrison

Creator

en_US Harrison, I. Henry (translator)

Date

2016-01-25T19:03:33Z

en_US 1999-07

en_US 1883

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:03:33Z

Date Issued

en_US 1883

Abstract

en_US Harrison mentions in the preface that he is aware that Ralston's translation of Krylov into English already exists, but it is in prose and I am of the opinion that the spirit of Kriloff cannot but evaporate in prose (v-vi). He makes a point of not translating all the original fables; he leaves twenty-two of them untranslated. Of Krylov's thirty-eight borrowed fables, Harrison translates seven, to give the reader a sense of what he does with borrowed material. The result is that there are 149 fables here. One of the gifts of this work lies, I believe, in the tables the author has compiled. Before the fables there is a chronological table (xiii) showing translated fables, both original and borrowed, as well as omitted fables original and borrowed. There is then a classification of fables (xix). This list is done, surprisingly, with an eye more to lessons than, say, to characters. A list of sources for the borrowed fables then follows (xxiii). At the end of the book there is an AI sorted by characters. I read and enjoyed the first ten fables. Where Harrison translates a fable which Krylov borrowed, he makes pointed comments after the text on Krylov's improvement of his source. This nice book once belonged to a Congregational Church Lending Library.

Identifier

en_US 4311 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79585

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Remington & Co.

en_US London

Subject

en_US PG3337.K7 H3 1883

en_US Krylov

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole