Zwanzig Fabeln des Aesop
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Aesop
Baumann, Kurt
Watts, Bernadette
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1980
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Here is a large-format presentation of twenty fables, listed on the title-page across from a lovely full-page illustration titled Fabulier-Stunde, which features a fox and a rabbit in a large field looking onto a farm home, barns, and birds. I am surprised that I have missed this book up until now. The illustrations alternate between black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings and full-colored illustrations. Each fable gets a two-page spread, except that FC and FG share a pair of pages. Each moral is given in rhymed verse. Black-and-white illustrations often include an inset-box. The quatrain for GGE gives an alternate version: people had to pay so much tax on the golden eggs that they avoided more golden eggs and preferred to eat the goose! This is a lovely book! Both text and picture are well thought through time after time! I enjoy Baumann's spirit in his preface as he asks what we should make of the morals of Aesopic fables: Von Aesop selbst stammt mit Sicherheit keiner dieser Lehrsätze, die Moral liegt ja schon im Zweck der Fabel. He mentions, I think with proper pride, that no German language edition was the basis for his texts of the fables. See the English version, Aesop's Fables, by Dent in 1980 and the Japanese version, From Aesop's Stories, by Nishimura Shoten in 1990, both derived from this original edition.
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Nord-Süd Verlag
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8818 (Access ID)