Fables for the frivolous with apologies to La Fontaine Guy Wetmore Carryl Peter Newell Books
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Fables for the frivolous with apologies to La Fontaine Guy Wetmore Carryl Peter Newell Books
If you enjoy a good writer who can truly "play" with words or if you like a good parody or if you enjoyed the works of Ogden Nash, this little work will most certainly please you.Guy Whitmore Carryl was born in New York City in 1973 and died at the age of 31 in 1904. While he had a very short writing career, he most certainly made the most of it. He wrote for such publications as Harper's Magazine, Life and Collier's. He is best known for his works such as we find here in "Fables for the Frivolous, one of several volumes of such work he published during his lifetime. The work being reviewed here was first published in 1898 and has been reissued many times. It is a collection of parodies of Aesop's Fables set in rhyme.
I have to tell you that I found myself chuckling through this entire work and at times laughing out loud. As has been pointed out, even though Carryl was American, he most certainly was blessed with the dry wit of an Englishman. He is able to write some very ridiculous things, and do it with a straight face...so to speak.
Each of these fables ends with a "moral," and each of these morals ends with a pun. Carryl was most certainly a master of the English language and used it to amuse. He rewrote many of Grimm's Fairy Tales and Mother Goose Rhymes, turning them all into subtle parodies. This is all good stuff folks.
This Kindle edition is pretty good although, as with so many books printed, the formatting is in paragraph form rather than that of poem. In this case it does not matter that much as the reader will instantly see what has happened and quickly adjust. I cannot complain too much as the thing was free and copied by volunteers.
Don Blankenship
The Ozarks
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Fables for the frivolous with apologies to La Fontaine Guy Wetmore Carryl Peter Newell Books Reviews
I thought this was going to be literally fables, but it turned out to be (bad) poetry. I have never finished - nor even really begun - reading it, and cannot recommend it to anyone born after 1900.
This is absolutely hilarious. I found the funny and silly fables here to be masterfully crafted and great for a good chuckle.
Although the product description admits to poor printing this book
is so poorly produced it is nearly unreadable.
The content is also substandard.
The problem with the version that can be downloaded at no cost is that the book is written in verse, but the free version is not formatted in verse. It's quite annoying.
Already the title "Fables for the Frivolous" brought a smile to my face. I read the book in one day and I had an excellent time! The stories are written in verses, which just adds to the fun. The morals that come after every story also include little jokes and puns. I highly recommend this book to everyone who wants to relax from the everyday stress!
Carryl's talent is in the same league as Ogden Nash's or Lewis Carroll's. He was an American, but his humor has more of a British (a la Monty Python) feel macaronic, affectatiously aloof, and nonsensical. If you are serious about whimsy, you will love Guy Wetmore Carryl.
I just love this sort of thing. From Wikipedia, "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. Among the more celebrated of the fables are The Persevering Tortoise and the Pretentious Hare, The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull, and The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven."
If you enjoy a good writer who can truly "play" with words or if you like a good parody or if you enjoyed the works of Ogden Nash, this little work will most certainly please you.
Guy Whitmore Carryl was born in New York City in 1973 and died at the age of 31 in 1904. While he had a very short writing career, he most certainly made the most of it. He wrote for such publications as Harper's Magazine, Life and Collier's. He is best known for his works such as we find here in "Fables for the Frivolous, one of several volumes of such work he published during his lifetime. The work being reviewed here was first published in 1898 and has been reissued many times. It is a collection of parodies of Aesop's Fables set in rhyme.
I have to tell you that I found myself chuckling through this entire work and at times laughing out loud. As has been pointed out, even though Carryl was American, he most certainly was blessed with the dry wit of an Englishman. He is able to write some very ridiculous things, and do it with a straight face...so to speak.
Each of these fables ends with a "moral," and each of these morals ends with a pun. Carryl was most certainly a master of the English language and used it to amuse. He rewrote many of Grimm's Fairy Tales and Mother Goose Rhymes, turning them all into subtle parodies. This is all good stuff folks.
This edition is pretty good although, as with so many books printed, the formatting is in paragraph form rather than that of poem. In this case it does not matter that much as the reader will instantly see what has happened and quickly adjust. I cannot complain too much as the thing was free and copied by volunteers.
Don Blankenship
The Ozarks
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