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Polish Fables

Ignacy Krasicki

出版	Hippocrene Books, 1997
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyForeign Language Study / Multi-Language DictionariesSocial Science / Folklore & Mythology
ISBN	07818054819780781805483
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aNoZAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Ignacy Krasicki (1735-1801) was hailed as 'The Prince of Poets' by his contemporaries. In 1779, sixty-five of his fables, which used contemporary events and human relations to show a course to guide human conduct, were published. These fables present a world where reason is valued over sentiment, true to the enlightenment ideal. But the rhymes also sugar coar a bitter message: depicting a world where the strong continually take advantage of the weak. Many of the fables, which were published after the first partition of Poland in which Russia, Prussia and Austria took their first bites of their weaker neighbour, should also be read for their political implications. This bilingual edition includes English translation by Gerard Kapolka and twenty-two illustrations by well-known Polish artist Barbara Swidinska.