Wahrheit in Bildern: Aesopische und andere belehrende Dichtungen
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Schneider, Franz Xaver
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1857
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This is a lovely book with an engaging cover illustration. The title can be misleading. Yes, there is truth in pictures, but the only pictures here, other than that cover, are the fables themselves. These seem to be all newly created by Schneider. As the T of C on XV-XVI clarifies, there are three books, each containing 30 fables. The fables are numbered in the book but not in the T of C. The duochrome cover offers a picture of a complex scene, which turns out to illustrate the first fable in the first book. A hunter had raised a hare and the hare became accustomed to the noise of guns. The hare ran away from his owner and was telling fellow rabbits what it was like living with people. A shot was heard and all the other rabbits scattered. "Shame on you" said the pet "to fear a shot." One of those other rabbits answered back "You know how life goes in cities and towns, but you are fooling yourself if you think you know how to live out here." The pet hare disdained him. As the hunter approached, the pet hare did his usual trick by standing up on his hind legs. The hunter promptly shot him! Some ÔÇô or perhaps many ÔÇô of these fables have a non-traditional twist. Thus the mouse befriended by the lion was given a deer leg (95). He ate some and then crawled into it. The next day the lion came back from an unsuccessful hunting frustrated and angry. He gobbled up the deer leg, including the mouse! The fable just before has the lion telling his wife "He who is feared by all must protect himself against all." The book stops abruptly on 134.
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L.W. Seidel
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12414 (Access ID)