At the Big House

Title

en_US At the Big House

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Anne Virginia Culbertson

Creator

en_US Blaisdell, E. Warde

Contributor

en_US Blaisdell, E. Warde

Date

2016-01-25T16:13:45Z

en_US 1994-07

en_US 1904

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:13:45Z

Date Issued

en_US 1904

Abstract

en_US A wonderful and surprising gift! Diana is the secretary and brought the book for me to look at when I mentioned Aesop's fables. I never would have found it on my own. The book contains some fifty stories put into the mouths of, respectively, a Black (Nancy) and a mixture of Black and Native American ('Phrony). Nancy's stories borrow from Aesop, as the introduction points out; I would add somewhat distantly. The dialect is delightful and heavy. A normal reader might have to work at it for a while. I read the first few stories and enjoyed them thoroughly. Aunt Nancy points out at the beginning of her first story that Mis' Molly Hyar generally beats Mistah Slickry Sly Fox because it is the special gift of ladies that they get their own way, not with their fists but with their brains. Menfolks is kind er clumsy an' lumbersome 'bout sech ez dat.... (6). The setting is delightful: a mother who grew up in the South returns there with her children one year after the end of the Civil War. The stories were collected from elderly story-tellers and edited. There is about one illustration per story. T of C at the front. Some of the early pages are loose.

Identifier

en_US 2067 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77628

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Bobbs-Merrill

en_US Indianapolis

Subject

en_US PS3505.U28 A8 1904

en_US Culbertson

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole