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Fables, Foibles, and Foobles
Carl Sandburg
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Description for Fables, Foibles, and Foobles
Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 330. Weight in Grams: 195.
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) is best known for his poetry (Chicago Poems, Smoke and Steel, and Good Morning, America), his books for children, including Rootabaga Country and Potato Face, and his six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Illinois author devoted his life to writing, lecturing, reading from his own works, and collecting and singing folk songs.
Sandburg often incorporated proverbs, riddles, aphorisms, and vernacular wisdom in lectures, poetry, children’s stories, and in his novel Remembrance Rock. Believing that silliness and fun helped preserve sanity and balance, he put together a collection of fanciful anecdotes - alive ... Read more
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) is best known for his poetry (Chicago Poems, Smoke and Steel, and Good Morning, America), his books for children, including Rootabaga Country and Potato Face, and his six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Illinois author devoted his life to writing, lecturing, reading from his own works, and collecting and singing folk songs.
Sandburg often incorporated proverbs, riddles, aphorisms, and vernacular wisdom in lectures, poetry, children’s stories, and in his novel Remembrance Rock. Believing that silliness and fun helped preserve sanity and balance, he put together a collection of fanciful anecdotes - alive ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252060182
SKU
V9780252060182
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About Carl Sandburg
George Hendrick is emeritus professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and coeditor of the second volume of the autobiography of Carl Sandburg, Ever the Winds of Chance. Robert C. Harvey is a freelance cartoonist and illustrator and convention director for the National Council of Teachers of English.
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