Achtzig Fabeln
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Authors
Roessner, Georg Walter
Issue Date
1950
Type
Book, Whole
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This booklet seems to me typical of and instructive for post-war Western Germany. Genehmigt für den Gebrauch in Schulen durch Control Commission for Germany stands on the verso of the title-page here. This 72-page booklet has plain brown paper wraps featuring a proud tuxedoed frog on the cover. It is not easy to get eighty fables into seventy-two small pages! The ending T of C gives a good historical overview of the German fable, starting from Steinhöwel and concluding with Kleukens. A random sampling of the subjects treated does not bring up any surprises in most of the fables. The most recent are the most novel in subject, concluding with the booklet's last fable, Der Gummiball. The rubber ball wanted to get away and to get higher than he had yet gone. He got away over the hedge. He rolled into the ditch next to the road, and is lying there still. The printing is sometimes uneven here. The print used for both the T of C and the recognition of sources is very small! This book once belonged to Volkschule BÖBS.
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Hermann Schaffstein Verlag