99 Fantastic Fables

Ambrose Bierce



Carlos Nine (illustrations)

«The Grasshopper and the Ant:
One day in winter a hungry Grasshopper applied to an Ant for some of the food which they had stored. “Why,” said the Ant, “did you not store up some food for yourself, instead of singing all the time?” “So I did,” said the Grasshopper; “so I did; but you fellows broke in and carried it all away.”»

In an excellent collection of fables by Ambrose Bierce, politicians with insatiable ambition, unscrupulous doctors, non-religious members of religious orders, waffling poets, unbalanced judges and lunatics of all sorts march beside human-like lions, mice, rabbits and turtles. All this happens under the sharp and precise pen of one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century.

99 Fantastic Fables carefully selected and brilliantly illuminated by Carlos Nine, another visionary of the art of illustration.

140 x 210 mm; 112 pp. Hardback
ISBN: 978-84-92412-62-4

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Carlos Nine

Buenos Aires, 1944



He used to write for The New Yorker, The New York Times and Le Monde, and he has also illustrated many books for publishers in The United States, Europe and Asia, while his works have been exhibited in Barcelona, Brussels, Madrid, Milan, Poitiers and Rome. In 1988 he was honoured as Best Artist Abroad at the Barcelona Comic Fair; in 1993 he was awarded the Silver Clio Prize in New York; later in 1995 he was awarded the Caran d’Ache Prize for Illustration, and in 1997 he was awarded the International Catalònia Prize for Illustration. In 2001 the Superior School of Image in Angoulême awarded his life’s work.

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