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The Honest Woodcutter, also known as Mercury and the Woodman and The Golden Axe, is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 173 in the Perry Index. It serves as a cautionary tale on the need for cultivating honesty, even at the price of self-interest. It is also classified as Aarne-Thompson 729: The Axe falls into the Stream. [2]
Cover of the Chatto & Windus first edition of The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches (1900) Chapter I. Hadleyburg enjoys the reputation of being an "incorruptible" town known for its responsible, honest people who are trained to avoid temptation. However, at some point the people of Hadleyburg manage to offend a ...
According to Ellison, the short story is a warning about "the misuse of technology" (especially military technology), [12] and its ending is intended to represent how there is "a spark of humanity in us, that in the last, final, most excruciating moment, will do the unspeakable in the name of kindness", even sacrificing oneself for others' sake ...
Imandar Daurey is a story about a poor man named Daurey who makes a living by cutting down trees and selling firewood. One day, while in the middle of the jungle, he saw a giant log in the ground. Daurey tries to cut down the log, but he loses his axe in the pond. He then starts to cry, complaining about how unlucky his day was.
Two weeks later, when they were going to take the horse back to its hiding place, they met John Byro on the road. The farmer was extremely surprised. He recognized his horse but refused to believe that the boys had stolen it due to their tribe's fame for being honest and truthful. Later the boys return the horse quietly.
A painting of Jonathan Swift. Swift's essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of English literature.Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states: "A young healthy child ...
Honesty or truthfulness is a facet of moral character that connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness (including straightforwardness of conduct: earnestness), along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc. Honesty also involves being trustworthy, loyal, fair, and sincere.
An Honest Thief (Russian: Честный вор, Chestny vor) is an 1848 short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The story recounts the tale of the tragic drunkard , Emelyan Ilyitch. Synopsis