Fables for the Frivolous

Product Description


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.


About the Author


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.