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"Written down two thousand years ago in ancient Latin and Greek, the fables and morals of Aesop were first published in English in 1484 and have been passed down through generations. This edition collects 284 fables, including such classics as "The boy who cried wolf", "The tortoise and the hare", "Town mouse and Country mouse", and many more enjoyable yet teachable tales. With eighty illustrations by Milo Winter, this beautiful, vibrant clothbound...
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This is the first translation ever to make available the complete corpus of 358 fables.
Aesop was probably a prisoner of war, sold into slavery in the early sixth century BC, who represented his masters in court and negotiations and relied on animal stories to put across his key points. Such fables vividly reveal the strange superstitions of ordinary ancient Greeks, how they treated their pets, how they spoilt their sons and even what they kept in...
10) Aesop's fables
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A collection of the brief animal tales with specific morals which are attributed to a wise Greek slave. Includes The Fox and the Grapes, The Crow and the Pitcher, The Dog in the Manger, and The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, among many others.
13) Aesop's fables
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The noted illustrator presents thirteen of Aesop's most familiar fables.
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