Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.
Chargement... Treasury of Aesop's Fablespar Aesop
Aucun Chargement...
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Introduction by Oliver Goldsmith is based on the partially erroneous information prevalent in Goldsmith's time. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Discussion en coursAucunCouvertures populaires
Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)398.2Social sciences Customs, Etiquette, Folklore Folklore Folk literatureClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
Est-ce vous ?Devenez un(e) auteur LibraryThing. |
I was interested to revisit some of the familiar fables from my childhood and maybe discover some more obscure ones I hadn't seen before, but I have to say I found this volume rather disappointing. They're not particularly engaging versions of the tales, are sprinkled with not-very-good poetry, and have appended morals that are often surprisingly hard to parse, and which sometimes seem to have little to do with the fable itself or even to flat-out contradict their apparent intent. I mean, I have certainly never seen the fox in the "sour grapes" story lauded as a paragon of wisdom before! Very often, too, these tales, in their references and sensibilities, seem to have much more of, say, 19th century England that 600 BCE Greece. Admittedly, different times and cultures adapting ancient stories to suit their own needs is fairly natural and perhaps not to be begrudged, but it's not really what I was looking for here. There also seems to be at least one odd omission: I have no idea where the tortoise and the hare might have run off to this time, but they are certainly nowhere to be found here.
All that having been said, though, at least a couple of these stories did give me a bit of a smile, being, as the kids these days say, #relatable. Like the one about the donkey who always longs for it to be whatever season it currently isn't. Who is, of course, being held up as a model for what not to do, but, man, I feel ya Mr. Donkey. I feel ya. ( )