Description
Privately Printed (Costa Mesa, California), Published 1992. Wraps, 114 pp; 22 cm; no edition or printing statement, no other printings traced (the copyright page reads only "Copyright (C) 1992 by Robert Harris").
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Green illustrated wraps; the plain rear cover shows light surface scuffing to the green coating across most of its surface, with a few lighter scuffs to the front. Mild bumping to edges and corners. Spine straight, binding tight. Interior pages clean and unmarked throughout. Inscribed in blue ink on the title page by the author to a previous owner ("Have fun with these stories and find something to keep, too!") and signed "Robert H[arris]." A signed and inscribed copy of the author's earliest published book.A collection of forty-five brief moral and philosophical tales drawing on Aesopian fable, biblical parable, Arthurian pastiche, and contemporary social satire, typically closing on an observation about self-worth, perseverance, or the search for meaning. Robert A. Harris (b. 1950) was Associate Professor of English at Southern California College in Costa Mesa at the time of writing, having earlier completed his Ph.D. in English at the University of California, Riverside (1982). Stories from the Old Attic is his earliest published book.Contents: The Second Greatest Commandment; A Good Horse and a Better; It's Nut Valuable; Stewardship; The Man Who Believed in Miracles; A Fish Story; Man; Love; Indecision; The Limit; How Sir Reginald Helped the King; How the Noble Percival Won the Fair Arissa; Truth Carved in Stone; How Sir Philo Married a Beautiful Princess Instead of the Woman He Loved; Serendipity; A Tale Revealing the Wisdom of Being a Cork on the River of Life; The Art of Truth; Matthew 18:3; The Boy and the Vulture; Three Flat Tires; The History of Professor De Laix; How the Humans Finally Learned to Like Themselves; The Caterpillar and the Bee; The Wise One; On the Heroic Suffering of Mankind; The Quest; Life; Discernment; It Depends on How You Look at It: Eight Vignettes on Perspective; The Strange Adventure; In Defeat There Is Victory; The Oppressed Girl; Two Conversations on Direction; Semiotics Strikes Out; Seeing is Believing; A Traditional Story; The Day Creativity Met the Linear Dragon; The Wall and the Bridge; The Wish; Several One Way Conversations; How the King Learned about Love; The Fly and the Elephant; The Man Who Talked Backwards; The Clue; An Analogy.