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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