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Caps for Sale was included as one of five stories on the 1986 VHS release Five Stories for the Very Young from Weston Woods Studios, animated using illustrations from the book. [11] A remake was released on Weston Woods's 2007 collection Picture Book Classics on DVD, narrated by Rex Robbins.
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." is a six-word story, and one of the most famous examples of flash fiction. Versions of the story date back to the early 1900s, and it was being reproduced and expanded upon within a few years of its initial publication. [1] [2]
In the Latin versions of Walter of England, [5] Odo of Cheriton [6] and Heinrich Steinhöwel's Aesop, [7] for example, the word umbra is used. At that time it could mean both reflection and shadow, and it was the latter word that was preferred by William Caxton , who used Steinhöwel's as the basis of his own 1384 collection of the fables. [ 8 ]
A moral (from Latin morālis) is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. [1] The moral may be left to the hearer, reader, or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim. [2] A moral is a lesson in a story or real life. [3]
The story was published in the September 1841 issue of Graham's Magazine as "Never Bet Your Head: A Moral Tale". Its republication in the August 16, 1845, issue of the Broadway Journal included its now-standard title "Never Bet the Devil Your Head". [3] Noted Poe biographer Arthur Hobson Quinn dismissed the story, stating "it is a trifle." [6]
In the Greek version, the lion retorts that if lions could sculpt, they would show themselves as the victors, drawing the moral that honesty outweighs boasting. [ 2 ] The commentator Francisco Rodríguez Adrados places the fable among those dialogues where boasting is logically refuted [ 3 ] and cites as a parallel a pre-Aesopic tale in which a ...
The moral of the story appears pithily in La Fontaine's version as le travail est un trésor (work is wealth), as is also made explicit in the Greek (ὁ κάματος θησαυρός ἐστι) and in Faerno's Latin (thesaurus est labor). [5] English versions have been more roundabout and long-winded.
A story within a story can be used in all types of narration including poems, and songs. Stories within stories can be used simply to enhance entertainment for the reader or viewer, or can act as examples to teach lessons to other characters. [2] The inner story often has a symbolic and psychological significance for the characters in the outer ...