The fables of Aesop
by Aesop, Joseph Jacobs, Roger L'Estrange, and Percy J. Billinghurst
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A reprint of an illustrated collection of over 300 fables from Aesop, originally published in 1909
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Fables, Greek Fables, Translations from Greek, English Fables, Translations into English, Children's stories, Juvenile literature, Picture books for children, Children's stories, English, Aeronautics, History, Flight, Flight in art, Ascension of the soul in art, Medieval Arts, Themes, motives, Renaissance Arts, Folklore, Fiction, Folklore, juvenile literature, Children's fiction, Turtles, fiction, Rabbits, fiction, Wolves, fiction, Mice, fiction, Adaptations, Juvenile fiction, Fables, greek--translations into english, Fables--translations into english, Pa3855.e5 c32 1984Showing 11 featured editions. View all 109 editions?
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Facsim. of: ed. published 1909 by Hodder & Stoughton
King Collection copy [limited ed.], bound in leather with gilt, red moire endpapers and ribbon marker, 23 color plates top-mounted on titled leaves
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The world's oldest known collection of fables and folk tales. Some of the stories credited to Aesop, a Greek slave who lived in about the sixth century BCE, are known in every corner of the globe, such as 'The Tortoise and the Hare' and 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'. Other familiar tales are 'The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs', 'The Fox and the Grapes' and ''The Ant and the Grasshopper'.
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| January 21, 2013 | Edited by Bryan Tyson | Edited without comment. |
| January 21, 2013 | Edited by Bryan Tyson | Added new cover |
| October 31, 2011 | Edited by WorkBot | merge works |
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| September 26, 2008 | Created by ImportBot | Imported from Miami University of Ohio MARC record |