Aesop's Fables (Penguin Classics)

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• Book ID: 107042725
• Publisher: ePenguin
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 55 KB
• Series: Penguin Classics
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781420925760

✦ Synopsis

Product Description

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.

About the Author

AESOP probably lived in the middle part of the sixth century BC. A statement in Herodotus gives grounds for thinking that he was a slave.