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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 68 pages. Spanish language. 9.00x6.00x0.16 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 120 pages. Spanish language. 9.00x6.00x0.29 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Within my book collection there is a great surplus of children's books which today are not even known to many of their parents. I feel the need to provide a glance to both parents and children of what they are missing and perhaps I can imagine see them reading to their children to expand their limitless imagination and acquire a tiny portion of morals which they might apply to themselves as they grow to adulthood. Walter Crane's beautifully illustrated version of Aesop's fables, shortened and put into limericks for the younger reader and first published in 1887. Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Apollonius of Tyana, a 1st-century CE philosopher, is recorded as having said about Aesop: . like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events. Read Baby's Own Aesop (1887), with its cryptically political 'morals' and stunning illustrations by Walter Crane. Crane was not just a brilliant graphic designer and chromolithographer, but also an ardent socialist, close friend of William Morris, and a Marxist Trade Union supporter. The Baby's Own Aesop uses short, rhymed versions of the famous fables of the ancient Greek story teller Aesop. In Crane's preface he tells us that he has produced his version of the tales from a manuscript kindly lent to him by the wood-engraver, William James Linton. Crane continues, however, 'I have added a touch here and there'. Since Linton was as radical in his own Chartist-republican way as the more socialist-Marxist-Internationalist Crane, it is virtually impossible to tell which of them is responsible for the very individual character of the morals the book prescribes The title page proudly reports that the rhyming fables come with "portable morals". These morals are usually printed in capitals in the white space surrounding the rhyme, which is itself embedded within the page's picture. The fables originally belonged to the oral tradition and were not collected for some three centuries after Aesop's death. By that time a variety of other stories, jokes and proverbs were being ascribed to him, although some of that material was from sources earlier than him or came from beyond the Greek cultural sphere. The process of inclusion has continued until the present, with some of the fables unrecorded before the later Middle Ages and others arriving from outside Europe. The process is continuous and new stories are still being added to the Aesop corpus, even when they are demonstrably more recent work and sometimes from known authors. Manuscripts in Latin and Greek were important avenues of transmission, although poetical treatments in European vernaculars eventually formed another. On the arrival of printing, collections of Aesop's fables were among the earliest books in a variety of languages. Through the means of later collections, and translations or adaptations of them, Aesop's reputation as a fabulist was transmitted throughout the world. Initially the fables were addressed to adults and covered religious, social and political themes. They were also put to use as ethical guides and from the Renaissance onwards were particularly used for the education of children. Their ethical dimension was reinforced in the adult world through depiction in sculpture, painting and other illustrative means, as well as adaptation to drama and song. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. It has been 240 years since 1777 when women lost the right to vote in New York to 1920 when the "Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution" ratified, stating, "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex". The lives of American women in the 1920s differed vastly from their counterparts who had lived only a few decades prior to entrance into the adult world. To the women of the 1920s, the True Woman was little more than a relic that simply acted as a generational gap between their grandmothers and mothers, and themselves. The battle for suffrage was finally over. After all those years of struggles, women had won the precious right to vote. The generations of suffragists that had fought for so long proudly entered the political world. Carrie Chapman Catt carried the struggle into voting awareness with the founding of the League of Women Voters. Alice Paul vowed to fight until an Equal Rights Amendment was added to the Constitution. Margaret Sanger declared that female independence could be accomplished only with proper birth control methods. To their dismay, the daughters of this generation seemed uninterested in these grand causes. As the 1920s roared along, many young women of the age wanted to have fun. With almost infinite more opportunities and equality than the generations before them, these young women quickly and eagerly embraced a rapidly changing world that now allowed females to finally voice their opinions in both the private and public sector. And although a number of holdovers still existed from the Victorian era, the partition between the True Woman and the New Woman was slowly becoming more and more apparent, especially a new phenomenon's like the flapper and the vacuum cleaner took over the American media. Never before in American history had women experienced such personal, social, or political freedom, which meant that the 1920s was also a time of exploration in regards to what it now meant to be a woman. As evidenced in both the images and the articles on these New Women, a completely new outlook on womanly body image was beginning to hold in American communities. In the past, a more full-figured physique was considered most attractive on females, displaying that they were both capable of buying food and not having difficulty in birthing children. In sharp contrast, the 1920s saw the entrance of the flapper, who often "wore the flapper uniform which turned to flattening brassieres that were constructed of shoulder straps and a single band of material that encased the body from chest to waist. Although a healthy, trim build was emulated in past decades, the pencil-thin frames that were now considered to be the ideal of the 1920s were much, much different than anything that had ever been seen before. As evidenced in the many images advertising maternity corsets and girdles, being stick-straight during both pregnancy and immediately after birth was a necessity for decade's New Women. Whereas the True Woman existed solely to be a good mother and wife to her family, the New Woman often placed her appearance and outward image right up along with the home. A very rapidly changing America resulted in a massive shift between the beliefs that had governed the True Woman and those that had come to oversee the New Woman of the 1920s. New opportunities and equalities gave the young women of the 1920s an unprecedented level of freedom compared to their mothers and grandmothers, while also allowing them to indulge in pursuits other than a constant aspiration for motherhood. It was likely this freedom and the third wave of industrialization that had spawned the new athletics, dieting, and flapper crazes that have come to epitomize the 1920s in American history. As the "Flappers" danced at speakeasies women on Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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