Aesop's Fables

"Aesop's Fables" presents examples of selfishness turning to generosity, deception evolving into honor, and gloom unfolding to pleasure. As vibrant as ever, "Aesop's Fables" live on in storybooks, anthologies, and in the tradition of classic folk-telling, here carried on by such celebrity performers as Sharon Stone, Elliott Gould, Cheryl Ladd, Burt Reynolds, Jean Stapleton, Rod Steiger, and others.

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Aesop's Fables is a collection of tales from the sixth century B.C. in which the animal characters talk and act like humans. Each story has moral lessons as true today as ever.

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46 fables in illustrations-from 1476 German incunabular edition woodcuts-and texts in new translations.

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Children's edition of Aesop's fables with new illustrations by Rodney McRae. Includes a brief introduction by Maurice Saxby.

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A collection of over two hundred familiar tales. It includes the best-known examples - the dog in the manger, the boy who cried wolf - and less familiar tales. Each fable has its own sharply pointed moral and individual cast of characters - animals and human.

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These fables are morality plays. They illustrate what was fundamental to Greek culture. Their appeal to us lies in a logic we still understand. This in turn awakens an appreciation of how far ahead of their time the Greeks were, how enduring their thought was, & also, to how much we have to be grateful to them for

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Scores of entertaining and instructive tales - delightfully illustrated - include "The Fox and the Grapes," "The Ant and the Grasshopper," "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse," "The Crow and the Pitcher," "The Fox and the Stork," "The Hare and the Tortoise," and many more. 35 illustrations.

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Over 2500 years old, Aesop's memorable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listeners and modem-day readers.

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The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly two millennia ago. Aesop was reputedly a tongue-tied slave who miraculously received the power of speech; from his legendary storytelling came the collectionsof prose and verse fables scattered throughout Greek and Roman literature. First published in English by Caxton in 1484, the fables and their morals continue to charm modern readers: who does not know the story of the tortoise and the hare, or the boy who cried wolf?This new translation is the first to represent all the main fable collections in ancient Latin and Greek, arranged according to the fables' contents and themes. It includes 600 fables, many of which come from sources never before translated into English.

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More than 200 classic tales by legendary storyteller Aesop have been translated into readable, modern American English, and illustrated with 50 woodcuts by famous 19th-century French artist J.J. Grandville.

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Beloved tales include "The Fox and the Grapes," "The Ant and the Grasshopper," "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse," "The Crow and the Pitcher," "The Fox and the Stork," more. 35 illustrations.

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Translated by S. A. Handford.

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Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620?560 BC), a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables, usually involving personified animals. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. Many stories included in Aesop's Fables, such as The Fox and the Grapes (from which the idiom "sour grapes" was derived), The Tortoise and the Hare, The North Wind and the Sun and The Boy Who Cried Wolf, are well-known throughout the world.

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This is a collection of Aesop's fables, together with morals, illustrated with traditional pictures by Victorian artists.

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This clear print title is set in Tieras 13pt font for easy reading

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The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly two millennia ago. Aesop was reputedly a tongue-tied slave who miraculously received the power of speech; from his legendary storytelling came the collections of prose and verse fables scattered throughout Greek and Roman literature. First published in English by Caxton in 1484, the fables and their morals continue to charm modern readers: who does not know the story of the tortoise and the hare, or the boy who cried wolf? This new translation is the first to represent all the main fable collections in ancient Latin and Greek, arranged according to the fables' contents and themes. It includes 600 fables, many of which come from sources never before translated into English.

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Brad Sneed brings his zany and creative talents to the world of Aesop. In his signature style of tricky perspectives, amusing exaggerations, and rich, delicate watercolors, his animal characters are beautifully realistic and yet humorously human, as they mimic a wide range of human feelings . . . and foibles. The stories of Aesop have been told and retold over the centuries; in his lively adaptation Brad Sneed updates the language and infuses these fifteen stories with a sense of humor that children will enthusiastically enjoy. And once again, as in his popular alphabet book Picture a Letter, Brad has included a wordless bonus for sharp-eyed readers of all ages-a sixteenth tale told only in pictures is hidden somewhere between the covers.

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Aesop is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C., a slave on the Greek island of Samos. The eternally entertaining tales attributed to him–in which the fates of sly foxes, wicked wolves, industrious ants, and others, suggest what our own behaviors should (or should not) be–have been universal "best-sellers" since before L'Estrange's definitive 1692 English translation. Gooden's superb engravings were first published in 1936 in a limited edition.

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This large-format book features a re-telling of the classic Aesop's fables, with a contemporary twist.

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Short, satirical tales, written in the 6th century B.C., designed to teach simple but important lessons about life.

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Aesop's wonderful and amusing animal characters, which take on human-like qualities, have delighted the young and old for centuries.

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Full of humor, insight, and wit, the tales in Aesop's Fables champion the value of hard work and perseverance, compassion for others, and honesty. They are age-old wisdom in a delicious form, for the consumption of adults and children alike.

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FOXES, STORKS AND THIRSTY CROWS: THEY'RE ALL GATHERED HERE IN A COLLECTION OF EIGHT OF AESOP'S BEST-LOVED TALES. YOU MAY KNOW THE STORY OF THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE, BUT HAVE YOU HEARD THE ONE ABOUT THE LION AND THE MOUSE?

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations." The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

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Large Format for easy reading. The classic moralistic fables from Ancient Greece.

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If you have ever heard phrases like, "look before you leap," "necessity is the mother of invention," or "two wrongs don't make a right," you are not alone. These phrases and many like them, which have become so commonplace, were first coined by Aesop. Born into slavery in ancient Greece, Aesop supposedly won his freedom with his learned wit. Collected here are his famous fables translated by George Fyler Townsend with a short biography of Aesop and a preface to the fables.

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This reissue of Lisbeth Zwerger's gorgeously illustrated edition features 12 Aesop favorites, from "The Fox and the Grapes" to "The Milkmaid & Her Pail."