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Aesop: Fables
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Aesop: Fables Mass market paperbound - 1954

by S. A. Hanford; Aesop; Brian Robb (Illustrator)


Summary

Sardonic, wry and wise, Aesop's Fables are some of the most enduring and well-loved literary creations in history. In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop created a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. Here we see a wily fox outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over a self-confident hare and a fable-teller named Aesop silencing those who mock him. Each jewel-like fable provides a warning about the consequences of wrong-doing, as well as offering a glimpse into the everyday lives of Ancient Greeks.

From the publisher

Aesop probably lived in the middle part of the sixth century BC. A statement in Herodotus gives ground for thinking that he was a slave belonging to a citizen of Samos called Iadmon. Legend says that he was ugly and misshapen. There are many references to Aesop found in the Athenian writers: Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle and others. It is not known whether he wrote down his Fables himself, nor indeed how many of them are correctly attributed to his invention.

First line

ONE hot, sultry day, a Wolf and a Lamb happened to come, just at the same time, to quench their thirst in the stream of a clear silver brook that ran tumbling down the side of a rocky mountain.

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  • Title Aesop: Fables
  • Author S. A. Hanford; Aesop; Brian Robb (Illustrator)
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date September 30, 1954
  • ISBN 9780140440430 / 0140440437
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.74 x 5.08 x 0.6 in (19.66 x 12.90 x 1.52 cm)
  • Reading level 1090
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.2
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