Dreissig Tierfabeln
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Fadrus, Viktor
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1950
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This fascinating little school pamphlet reproduces a more substantial book of 1931. The board cover becomes paper, lightens its green color, reverses the insect image, and expands the old cover title "Tierfabeln" to the correct interior title, "Dreissig Tierfabeln." The inside updates to 1950, changes the old Gothic script to Roman, and adds an Austrian publisher, but otherwise keeps the book intact. As I wrote there, the book offers thirty fables chosen from Aesop, Phaedrus, and a wide collection of German authors. Authors are listed in the closing numbered T of C but not with the fable texts themselves. The texts include both verse and prose. The black-and-white illustrations are large, varied in size, and simple. My award for a great short fable goes to Lessing's "Der Affe und der Fuchs" (8). The monkey boasts, "Name me an animal whom I cannot imitate!" The fox answers "And name me an animal so insignificant that it would occur to him to imitate you!" On the next page Gellert's proud coachhorse raises his legs and asks the plowhorse when he can prompt such great respect. The plowhorse answers "Quiet. If I my industriousness did not plow the field, you wouldn't have the nourishment that makes your legs so proud."
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Osterreichischer Bundesverlag: Verlag für Jugend und Volk
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11640 (Access ID)