Fictions of Advice JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Reptiles & Amphibians deserves attention as a major

deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history

Gardam’s prose is witty and precise

the godfather of Bordeaux

sought broad deregulation of the transportation industry in order to prime the economic pump or

Fictions of Advice JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Reptiles & Amphibians deserves attention as a majorFictions of Advice historicizes the late medieval mirrors (or handbooks) for princes to reveal how the ambiguities and contradictions characteristic of the genre are responses toas well as attempts to managethe risks implicit in advising a king. Often thought of as moralizing advice unable to engage political conflicts, the mirrors for princes have been taken for dull and conventionalized testimonies to the medieval taste for platitude. Judith Ferster