Fables for the Frivolous

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Fables for the Frivolous is among the first books by the lampooner Guy Wetmore Carryl. These fables are rendered from Jean de La Fontaine’s unique stories. The Aesop-designed fables are drafted in poetry, and are carefree reiterations of fables from two centuries earlier, each finishing with a moral lesson and a jest. One of the much rejoiced of the fables are The Persevering Tortoise and the Pretentious Hare, The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull, and The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven.

Guy Wetmore Carryl was an American parodist and poet. Guy was born in New York City, to his parents Charles Edward Carryl and Mary R. Wetmore.

He had his first essay distributed in The New York Times when he was just 20. When he was 22, Guy finished studying from Columbia University. In his college years, he had produced dramas for shoddy acts, such as the earliest Varsity Show. A few of his professors was Harry Thurston Peck, who was appalled by Guy’s well known citation, “It takes two bodies to make one seduction,” which was a rather smutty quote during those days.

After completing his studies, he worked as a staff author for Munsey’s Magazine under Frank Munsey and he later became the managing editor of the publication. Then he worked for Harper’s Magazine and was led to Paris. While in Paris he penned for Life, Outing, Munsey’s, and Collier’s and his own sovereign works.

A few of Guy’s famous writings were his amusing verses that were caricatures of Aesop’s Fables, including The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven and of Mother Goose nursery rhymes, including The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet, poems which are still known in the present time. He also wrote numerous satirical spoofs of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, including How Little Red Riding Hood Came To Be Eaten and How Fair Cinderella Disposed of Her Shoe.
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