ISBN:
9780813118123
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9780813158730 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
256 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780813158730
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
Studies in Romance Languages
DDC:
398.24/52
Keywords:
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
In 1489 Johan Hurus printed the first collection of fables in Spain, Lavida del Ysopetconsusfabulas hystoriadas. Illustrated with nearly 200 woodcuts, this work quickly became the most-read book in Spain, beloved of both children and adults. Reprinted many times in the next three centuries and carried to the New World, it brought to Spanish letters a cornucopia of Aesopic fables, oriental apologues, and folktales that were borrowed by such writers as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, and especially the fabulists Iriarte and Samaniego. John Keller and Clark Keating now present the first English transla...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Online-Ausg.:
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