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Fables / by Lobel, Arnold.;
Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.
Subjects: Fables, American.;
© 1983, c1980., Harper & Row,
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Fables of identity : studies in poetic mythology / by Frye, Northrop.;
Includes bibliographical references.1. The archetypes of literature -- Myth, fiction, and displacement -- Nature and Homer -- New directions from old -- 2. The structure of imagery in The faerie queene -- How true a Twain -- Recognition in The winter's tale -- Literature as context: Milton's Lycidas -- Towards defining an age of sensibility -- Blake after two centuries -- The imaginative and the imaginary -- Lord Byron -- 3. Emily Dickinson -- Yeats and the language of symbolism -- The realistic oriole: a study of Wallace Stevens -- Quest and cycle in Finnegan's wake.
Subjects: English poetry; American poetry; Mythology in literature.; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.; Poetics.;
© c1963., Harcourt, Brace & World,
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Fables of abundance : a cultural history of advertising in America / by Lears, T. J. Jackson,1947-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-476) and index.
Subjects: Advertising; Advertising;
© c1994., Basic Books,
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Town mouse, country mouse / by Brett, Jan,1949-;
After trading houses, the country mice and the town mice discover there's no place like home.
Subjects: Fables.; Mice;
© c1994., Putnam,
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The age of fable : [electronic resource] : Stories of Gods and Heroes. by Bulfinch, Thomas.;
Long regarded as one of the most significant collectors and interpreters of folklore and mythology, Thomas Bulfinch was an esteemed but not affluent scholar from Massachusetts who set about making the world's folk tales accessible to the lay reader. In this, Bulfinch's first published work, he explores ancient Greek and Roman folk tales and their interpretation by various authors over the course of thousands of years.Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1962 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 548 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1960 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 541 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Folklore.; Mythology.;
© 2013., Duke Classics,
On-line resources: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=1327443 -- Click to access title in OverDrive.;
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Fables for our time : and famous poems illustrated / by Thurber, James,1894-1961.;
Fables: Mouse who went to the country -- Little girl and the wolf -- Two turkeys -- Tiger who understood people -- Fairly intelligent fly -- Lion who wanted to zoom -- Very proper gander -- Moth and the star -- Shrike and the chipmunks -- Seal who became famous -- Hunter and the elephant -- Scotty who knew too much -- Bear who let it alone -- Owl who was God -- Sheep in wolf's clothing -- Stork who married a dumb wife -- Green isle in the sea -- Crow and the oriole -- Elephant who challenged the world -- Birds and the foxes -- Courtship of Arthur and Al -- Hen who wouldn't fly -- Glass in the field -- Tortoise and the hare -- Patient and the bloodhound -- Unicorn in the garden -- Rabbits who caused all the trouble -- Hen and the heavens. -- Poems: Excelsior -- Sands of o'Dee -- Lochinvar -- Locksley hall -- "Oh when I was you -- Curfew must not ring to-night -- Barbara Fretchie -- Glove and the lions -- Ben Bolt.
Subjects: American wit and humor.;
© 1990., Perennial Library,
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Lousy rotten stinkin' grapes / by Palatini, Margie.; Moser, Barry,ill.; Aesop.;
Ages 4-8.Retells the fable of a frustrated fox that, after many tries to reach a high bunch of grapes, decides they must be sour anyway.
Subjects: Folklore.; Fables.; Folklore; Fables;
© c2009., Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,
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Brewer's dictionary of modern phrase & fable. by Ayto, John.; Crofton, Ian.;
Subjects: English language; Literature; Mythology; Allusions.;
© 2006., Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
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Brewer's dictionary of phrase & fable / by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham,1810-1897.;
This edition of 'Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable' has been fully revised and updated and contains entries on a vast range of colloquial words and expressions as well as mythology and folk customs.
Subjects: Dictionaries.; Fables; English language; Folklore;
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The classic treasury of Aesop's fables / by Aesop.; Daily, Don,ill.;
The crow and the pitcher -- The fox and the grapes -- The city mouse and the country mouse -- The swallow and the crow -- The ass and the grasshopper -- The gnat and the bull -- The goose who laid the golden eggs -- The mouse and the frog -- The monkey and the camel -- The fox and the mask -- The cat and the bell -- The bull and the bullfrog -- The stag and his antlers -- The dog and his reflection -- The fox and the crow -- The tortoise and the hare -- The lion and the mouse -- The ass, the fox, and the lion -- The birds, the beasts, and the bat -- The frogs who desired a king.An illustrated collection of twenty fables originally told by the Greek slave, Aesop.
Subjects: Fables.; Folklore.; Fables, Greek;
© c1999., RP Kids Classics,
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