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Mille et une Histoires: les Renards
(Fleurus Presse, 2002)
"This is the February, 2002, number of a subscription pamphlet for young people and their parents. It contains four fox stories. From "Roman de Renard" comes the fable about the tail of Ysengrim. From "Kamchatka" comes ...
Choix de Fables de Samaniego et de Iriarte avec Notices Biographiques et Litteraires
(Garnier Frères, 1896)
""Un Parallele entre les deux Auteurs et des Annotations." Here is a French presentation of selected fables of the two great Spanish fabulists. Rosies selects about two to seven fables per book in the first eight books ...
Almanach auf das Jahr 1941: eine Auswahl der schönsten und bekanntesten Fabeln und Erzählungen, geistlichen Oden und Lieder von Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
(L. Staackmann Verlag, 1940)
"Here is a curious little book. It brings together a mixture of Gellert's fables and narratives and then changes script to Gothic for a selection of his spiritual hymns and songs. Following that there is a life of Gellert. ...
Florians Fabeln in Ihrem Verhaltnisse Zu Den Fabeln La Fontaines
(Fakultät Der Friedrich Wilhelms Universität zu Berlin, 1912)
""Inaugural-Dissertation Zur Erlangung Der Doktorwürde Genehmigt Von Der Philosophischen Fakultät Der Friedrich Wilhelms Universität zu Berlin." It is a pleasure to include one typical German Doktorarbeit on a classic ...
Everyday Classics Third Reader
(MacMillan, 1917)
"Here is the third printing I have of this book. I have placed the printings of the others in 1922 and 1925. Other than the date of printing that they bear, I believe that they are identical. The particular pride of ...
Reading with Expression: Third Reader
(American Book Company, 1911)
"This copy is almost identical with another book in the collection. The only difference I notice is on the verso of the title-page, where this copy substitutes "W.P. 1" for "W.P. 2" there. As I wrote there, this is a ...
August Strindberg: Fabeln
(Georg Müller Verlag, 1918)
"Here are some fifteen short stories on 222 pages. I had read one of them earlier: "Schamhaftigkeit und Kälte." It is a funny fable of a mother ptarmigan ("Schneehuhn") who is incensed over her son's report that birds ...
Fábulas y Cuentos en Verso
(Instituto - Escuela: Junta para Ampliación de Estudios, 1922)
"I count some 33 fabulists represented in this fragile anthology of 210 pages. The largest contributors include the expected, Samaniego and Iriarte, and the unexpected, Hartzenbusch, Calderón de la Barca and Lope de Vega. ...
Der verborgene Schatz: Fabeln und Parabeln
(Herder, 1979)
"Originally published in French as "Paraboles et Fariboles" in 1978. This good book of things to think over starts with a "Gebrauchsanweisung: Nicht alles auf einmal anschauen. Sich an die vorgeschriebene Dosis halten. ...
Cassell's Illustrated Book of Fables: La Fontaine, Part 12
(Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1867)
"I have often wondered if I could lay my hands on some of the early subscription offerings of La Fontaine fables put out in twenty-two parts by Cassell, Petter, and Galpin in New York. Each segment cost $.50. Here is one ...