Cautionary Tales
- Authors
- Belloc, Hilaire
- Publisher
- Macmillan Collector's Library
- Tags
- poetry , childrens , humour , classics , art , horror
- Date
- 1907-01-01T08:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 6.15 MB
- Lang
- en
First published in 1907 and in print ever since, Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales for Children is a deliciously witty parody of the terribly serious moral tales for children, which were popular in Victorian times.
Terrifying and funny at the same time, and with a true sense of the absurd, Belloc brings us the renowned Jim, Who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a Lion and unfortunate Rebecca, who slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably.
As well as these stories and many more, this edition includes a selection of mischievous poems from The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts and More Beasts for Worse Children . This volume includes the original illustrations by Basil Temple Blackwood, known as B.T.B.