Cautionary Tales for Children
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TextoIdioma: en Editor: Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2008Descripción: 1 online resource : multiple file formatsTipo de contenido: - text
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Release date is 2008-12-05
Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Anne Storer and
the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
https://www.pgdp.net
"Cautionary Tales for Children" by Hilaire Belloc is a children's book published in 1907. This darkly humorous collection parodies the Victorian-era moral tales that warned children against bad behavior. Written in rhyming couplets, eleven tales follow unfortunate children who meet exaggerated, often fatal consequences for their misdeeds—from Jim, eaten by a lion, to Matilda, burned for lying. The poems satirize upper-class Victorian society while delighting readers with their wickedly entertaining mix of macabre humor and moral instruction. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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