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Aesop's Fables
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Aesop's Fables Mass market paperbound - 1992

by Aesop; Jack Zipes (Editor); J. J. Grandville (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.

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A famished fox crept into a vineyard where ripe, luscious grapes were draped high upon arbors in a most tempting display.

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  • Title Aesop's Fables
  • Author Aesop; Jack Zipes (Editor); J. J. Grandville (Illustrator)
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet Classics, New York
  • Date October 6, 1992
  • ISBN 9780451525659 / 0451525655
  • Weight 0.31 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.92 x 4.2 x 0.75 in (17.58 x 10.67 x 1.91 cm)
  • Reading level 1090
  • Library of Congress subjects Fables, Greek, Aesop's fables
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92060921
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.245
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