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The Fables of Aesop
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The Fables of Aesop Mass market paperbound - 1954

by Aesop, Aesop, Hanford, S. A

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  • Title The Fables of Aesop
  • Author Aesop, Aesop, Hanford, S. A
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date September 30, 1954
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 38389934-75
  • 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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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.

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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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