Fables For The Frivolous

by Guy Wetmore Carryl

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Genres: Poetry, Audiobook, Humor

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1898

Reviews

[Xenia]

I wanted to add some poetry to my life and I picked a good one to start. It was a fast read but I got several chuckles out of it. And even though the stories may be old, the themes definitely still apply. And sarcasm will never go out of style! And the language is beautiful!!! I got to practice my dictionary usage and added several new words to my vocab that I'm gonna try to squeeze in!!!

[Sarah]

American satirist Guy Wetmore Carryl collection of parodies of Jean de la Fontaine's 17th-century fables (many of which were based on Aesop's fables and other familiar stories) was published in 1898. These snappy smart-alecky retellings are told in rhyming verse complete with morals, and have rather fitting titles such as "The Rude Rat and the Unostentatious Oyster" "The Persevering Tortoise and the Pretentious Hare" and a story featuring a character even dumber than myself, "The Unusual Goose and the Imbecilic Woodcutter".

As compact and clever as this poetry collection was, however, I really struggled getting into it. I generally have trouble getting into really short episodic works like this, though, so maybe those who can get into that kind of thing can better appreciate this book.

[Cathy]

Free Kindle download. Akin to Aesop's fables written in verse. Published about 1898. Unfortunately, the Kindle edition doesn't start each line of the verse on a new line. Instead it capitalized the first word of each line. A little hard to read but still enjoyable.

[Leila]

Hilarious retelling - and no, these are not politically correct stories.

[AJ]

Fables told in poem form. A bit silly but it does say its for the Frivolous.