Cautionary Tales and Other Verses - Folio Society edition

Cautionary Tales and Other Verses

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Cautionary Tales and Other Verses - Folio Society edition
Folio Society
Poetry & Plays

Cautionary Tales and Other Verses

Hilaire Belloc

Edition year 1997
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Posy Simmonds
Weight 0.75 Kg
Pages 160
Dimensions 23.6 × 16.5 cm

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Cautionary Tales and Other Verses by Hilaire Belloc. Nine full-page colour illustrations and 33 black & white illustrations by Posy Simmonds. Bound in cloth with a design in dark green, red, yellow, white and black by Simmonds. Yellow endleaves. Orange slipcase. 23.6x16.5cm. 160 pp

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Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales and Other Verses brings together comic poems that parody the moralising literature traditionally written for children. Belloc describes spectacular punishments suffered by badly behaved youngsters, usually with deliberately exaggerated seriousness. His strong rhythms, absurd situations and wonderfully dry humour make the poems entertaining both as children's verse and as satire of conventional Victorian moral instruction.

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