Fables for the Frivolous by Newell, Peter

Fables for the Frivolous (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783959402606)

Vendor: Peter Newell
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$14.00
$14.00
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Fables for the Frivolous by Newell, Peter

Fables for the Frivolous

$14.00
Fables for the Frivolous by Newell, Peter

Fables for the Frivolous

$14.00
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
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Complete digitally restored reprint (facsimile handmade reproduction) of the original edition of 1899 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. With five illustrations by Peter Newell. The layout is +45% larger as the original for a better readability. Fables for the Frivolous is one of the earliest works by the American parodist Guy Wetmore Carryl. These fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine's original writings. The Aesop-style fables are written in verse, and are light-hearted re-tellings of fables from two centuries before, each ending with a moral and a pun.

Author: Peter Newell, Guy Wetmore Carryl
ISBN-10: 3959402600
ISBN-13: 9783959402606
Publisher: Reprint Publishing
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2018
Pages: 146
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.31d
By Peter Newell
By Peter Newell
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Guy Wetmore Carryl (born March 4, 1873, died April 1, 1904). He was an American humorist and poet. Guy Wetmore Carryl died in 1904 at age 31 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. His death was thought to be a result of illness contracted from exposure while fighting a fire at his house a month earlier. Peter Newell (born March 5, 1862, died January 15, 1924). He was an American artist and author. Peter Newell often illustrated the works of other authors, such as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, John Kendrick Bangs, and Lewis Carroll. He died in Little Neck, New York, in 1924.

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