About this title: Wangerin's allegorical fable chronicles the struggle between good and evil exemplified by Chaunticleer the Rooster, and the horrific Wyrm who threatens his kingdom.
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Description: Lundgren, Carl. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. VG+ 255 p. 1st paperback edition from Pocket, 1979. VERY GOOD PLUS. Carl Lundgren cover art. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books, New York
Date published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780671832179ISBN:0671832174
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, shelf wear to cover, light creases on spine, aging. 255 p.; 18 cm. Cover art by Carl Lundgren. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books, New York
Date published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780671832179ISBN:0671832174
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to cover, light creases on spine, light aging, light slant to book, stk #2364v6. 255 p.; 18 cm. Cover art by Carl Lundgren. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Date published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780062509376ISBN:0062509373
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine NOT creased. Remainder mark. NO tears, stains, writing, etc. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Date published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780062509376ISBN:0062509373
Description: Good. Moderate cover wear and tear. Age toning and MINIMAL markings present. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
Date published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780060263461ISBN:0060263466
Description: Fair. Dust Cover Missing. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
"Best. Cockfight. EVER! Just by loving each other and hoping in their Creator God, a little community of farm and forest animals unknowingly holds at bay the great evil of Wyrm, imprisoned under the earth. When Wyrm sets to the task of freeing himself by destroying their love and hope: attacking them with an army of Basilisks serpents, it is up to the animals and their rooster leader, Chautecleer, to defend their community with their lives. There's lots of little life lessons, especially for leaders. Holding together a rag-tag group as diverse as a group of farm and forest animals is a real challenge for these fictional characters as sure as it is for people to be together in real life. I had to laugh at the capers of the turkeys, even while I was getting the lesson of the danger that their lingering pouting posed to everyone and especially to themselves. I nearly cried over the dog. I highly recommend this book to youth and adults alike. Great story, great application."
"This book ranks very highly among my all-time favorite novels. It's an allegorical story told in a kind of romping, hand-clapping narrative that is at artistic odds with the very dark, desperate theme. It's worth reading as a study of literary juxtaposition alone -- but the story itself is riveting, the characters totally absorbing.
It's been months since I finished The Book of the Dun Cow, and I'm still ruminating on it. It will have a permanent place on my book shelf -- this little novella about chickens and a dog is just as truthful and beautiful as anything written by Ray Bradbury, Ursula LeGuin, or Vladimir Nabokov."
"I am 61 years old, an off-duty Marine. I must have read this little book twenty or thirty times in my life. The rage of John Wesley Weasel still brings tears, raises my hackles, makes me wanna stand up and cheer. "Do and do and do and do! John Wesley Weasel will do for you!" And I got goose bumps and I'm leaking tears and in my mind I am screaming: "Go, John Wesley! Go! Go! Go!" I can barely stay in my seat.
Maybe there's something wrong with me, but I don't think so.
All over the world there are billions of innocent people. They may be weak, they may have petty faults, they may even be stupid but in the final analysis they are innocent and unassuming. They get up in the morning. The go to work. They bring home money and they feed their kids and make a home. Then there are the others in their millions. Hollywood calls them 'wiseguys' and has made heroes of them. Wiseguys have taken over management of our corporations, of Wall Street, of our government.
There have always been wiseguys. The whole of history is one long recital of wiseguys preying upon the innocent. Wiseguys are just people who want more than they deserve and think they know how to get it. Wiseguys are the people our Founders had in mind when they observed that the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots.
I had a history professor once. He was a Polish Jew who, as a little boy, somehow escaped Hitler's ovens. He used to make us read books about Stalin and Hitler and when some complained he said: "I only make you read this stuff because I want you to know, when you leave here, that there is such a thing as Evil and it does walk the Earth among us."
I didn't need convincing. I saw evil on the playground when I was a little boy. I saw evil in factories and mills and slaughterhouses and dance halls and bars. Evil is everywhere and it's easy to spot. It sports a knowing leer and a sidelong glance and it's always looking for the easier, softer way. It's a wiseguy, who takes what he wants from those who cannot or will not fight.
It needs a character like Chauntecleer to recognize what we're up against and organize the resistance. 'The Book of the Dun Cow' is a story older than the Bible. It is as old as the human race, and it will last just as long."
"I had never before heard of THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW, by Walter Wangerin Jr., until a local book group chose it for their next read. This is good, in a way, because I had no expectations. A National Book Award winner in 1980, the story completely involves animals that talk and not a human being in sight. Chauntecleer the Rooster rules a peaceful yard. While hens produce eggs, John Wesley Weasel gets accused of eating them, Ebenezer Rat is attacked, and Mundo Cani the Dog, Wee Widow Mouse and Pertelote the Hen come into the yard. THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW reads as a fable, with good fighting against evil. Although Wangerin claims it is not allegorical, one can't help but want to pick it apart. There are lots of references to "light" and "dark". I'm not sure I want to analyze it, because the reading of it is such a grand experience. This book is fabulous; the characters so well written that you feel like you know them. I think anyone would enjoy THE BOOK OF THE DUN COW. It is now one of my all-time favorite books!"
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