Showing posts with label EnglishFables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EnglishFables. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Flowers of Fable
Flowers of Fable (1847)
The book draws on a wide range of authors: Northcote, Aesop, Croxall, Gellert, Dodsley, Gay, La Fontaine, Lessing, Krasicki, Harder, Merrick, Cowper, etc. (Of course I was especially glad to see Krasicki there, whose Polish bajki are some of my favorites!) The anthologizer's initials appear to be "C.K.F." but no full name is given. Unfortunately, no citations are given for the fables - there is no way to know which fable comes from which source; there is an alphabetical list of titles, but no source information at all. Some of the fables are in prose, and some are in verse, and quite a few of them are accompanied by illustrations. The author is very emphatic in the introduction that the fables are suitable for children and morally uplifting, without any of the repugnant scurrility that often makes its way into collections of fables! Ha!
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Tappan: Folk Stories and Fables
Folk Stories and Fables by Eva March Tappan (1907)
This is part "The Children's Hour" series (volume 1 of 10 volumes). This is a delightful anthology with stories from all over the world, running to over 500 pages. It is an anthology drawing on books which are also in the public domain, so if you find a section of this book which you like, you would be able to find the book from which Ms. Tappan made her selections.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Howitt: New Work of Animals
A New Work of Animals by Samuel Howitt (1811)
The book contains 100 plates by Samuel Howitt illustrating fables from Aesop, Phaedrus and John Gay, with the fables mostly in prose but the ones from Gay in verse. Here is the tortoise and the hare:
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