Fables for the Frivolous

by Guy Wetmore Carryl

Overview

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789361426841
Publisher:	Double 9 Books
Publication date:	03/01/2024
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.12(d)

About the Author

Guy Wetmore Carryl was an American comic and poet. Carryl was born in New York City, the first child of author Charles Edward Carryl and Mary R. Wetmore. He had his first essay published in The New York Times when he was twenty years old. Carryl graduated from Columbia University in 1895, when she was 22 years old. During his college years, he wrote plays for amateur productions, including the inaugural Varsity Show. One of his lecturers was Harry Thurston Peck, who was scandalized by Carryl's famous quip, "It takes two bodies to make one seduction," which was considered risqué at the time. Following graduation, in 1896, he worked as a staff writer at Munsey's Magazine under Frank Munsey and was eventually promoted to managing editor. He later proceeded to work for Harper's Magazine and was transferred to Paris. While in Paris, he contributed to Life, Outing, Munsey's, and Collier's, as well as his own independent work. Carryl's most well-known works were comic poems that were parodies of Aesop's Fables, such as "The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven," and Mother Goose nursery rhymes, such as "The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet," which are still famous today.