Looks as though this book means to teach us a lesson!
The ancient story of the old dame and her pig: a legend of obstinacy shewing how it cost the old lady a world of trouble & the pig his tail illustrated by Luke Limner (1847)
Here’s to my all-time favorite author, Steven Millhauser … many years ago, when I worked as a floor clerk at the Yale Co-Op Bookstore, I’d see him now and then when he came to browse … I’d always put all his books “face out” in case he came to look at them, but he never went to the literature section …
“Art, he said, was a controlled madness…He said that books weren’t made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes.”
— Steven Millhauser, Dangerous Laughter
(Source: vintageanchorbooks)
Adventures of a Pig family, via Google Books and the Bodleian …
A curious tale from 1915, courtesy of public-domain.zorger.com.
A not-often-remembered — but quite elegant — porcine protagonist: Count Curly Wee
I love this one …
(via symphoniesandsonnets)
Here’s the cover of the Canadian edition of PYG, due out July 31st!
Cover for the Swedish edition of PYG, published by Basil
A bookish pig …
A “cochon savant” or “learned pig” exhibited by one Sieur Garman in 1785
