Aesop's Fables

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A collection of charming and enduring stories that convey morals to young and old alike.

Aesop was a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece around 620564 BCE. No writings by him exist (if they ever existed at all), yet numerous stories and tales have been credited to him and have been shared through oral tradition throughout the world. Many of these use animals as the main characters to convey deeper meanings and morals that have become ingrained in our culturaland personalbelief systems. For example, in The Goatherd and the Goat we learn that there is no use trying to hide what cant be hidden. In The Ass and the Purchaser we find that people are known by the company they keep. In The Boys and the Frogs, one persons pleasure may be another persons pain. The Dogs and the Fox show how easy it is to kick a man when hes down. And misery loves company, as we see in The Fox Without a Tail. Aesops Fables has been one of the worlds most charming collections of stories that have influenced thousands of other literary works.



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Aesop was a fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains uncertain and (if they ever existed) no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales are characterized by animals and inanimate objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics. Arthur Rackham (18671939) was a British illustrator.