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Aesop's Fables

By Aesop
Series: Word Cloud Classics
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This collection of charming and enduring stories conveys morals to young and old alike. Aesop was a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece around 620–564 BCE. No writings by him exist (if they ever existed at all), yet numerous stories and tales have been... Read More
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Aesop's Fables

This collection of charming and enduring stories conveys morals to young and old alike.

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This collection of charming and enduring stories conveys morals to young and old alike.

Aesop was a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece around 620–564 BCE. No writings by him exist (if they ever existed at all), yet numerous stories and tales have been credited to him and have been shared through oral tradition throughout the world.

Many of these use animals as the main characters to convey deeper meanings and morals that have become ingrained in our cultural—and personal—belief systems. For example, in “The Goatherd and the Goat,” we learn that there is no use trying to hide what can’t be hidden. In “The Ass and the Purchaser,” we find that people are known by the company they keep. In “The Boys and the Frogs,” one person’s pleasure may be another person’s pain. “The Dogs and the Fox” shows how easy it is to kick someone when they’re down. And misery loves company, as we see in “The Fox Without a Tail.”

Featuring colourful sprayed edges and a heat-burnished cover with foil stamping, Aesop’s Fables is a stylish collection of stories that have influenced thousands of other literary works.

Series: Word Cloud Classics

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781667209579

Publisher: Canterbury Classics

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 February 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Canterbury Classics

Edition: 2nd Edition

Contributors:

  • Translated by Arthur Rackham

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 365g

Pages: 256

Collections

Aesop Fiction General Fiction Historical Fiction Series: Word Cloud Classics

About the Author

Aesop was a fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains uncertain and (if they ever existed) no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales are characterized by animals and inanimate objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics. Arthur Rackham (1867–1939) was a British illustrator.

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