Fables for the Frivolous

With Apologies to La Fontaine

By:

Guy Wetmore Carryl

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Paperback / softback

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Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile handmade reproduction) of the original edition of 1899 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. With five illustrations by Peter Newell. The layout is ]45 % larger as the original for a better readability. Fables for the Frivolous is one of the earliest works by the American parodist Guy Wetmore Carryl. These fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine's original writings. The Aesop-style fables are written in verse, and are light-hearted re-tellings of fables from two centuries before, each ending with a moral and a pun.

Author Biography:

Guy Wetmore Carryl (born March 4, 1873, died April 1, 1904). He was an American humorist and poet. Guy Wetmore Carryl died in 1904 at age 31 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. His death was thought to be a result of illness contracted from exposure while fighting a fire at his house a month earlier. Peter Newell (born March 5, 1862, died January 15, 1924). He was an American artist and author. Peter Newell often illustrated the works of other authors, such as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, John Kendrick Bangs, and Lewis Carroll. He died in Little Neck, New York, in 1924.

Release date Australia

February 4th, 2018

Author

Guy Wetmore Carryl

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Illustrated by Peter Newell

Illustrations

Illustrations, black and white

Pages

146

Dimensions

152x229x8

ISBN-13

9783959402644

Product ID

27611772

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