false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167321620m/21348.jpg 21348 5 'The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole litter of piglets loudly accosted a lioness. "How many children do you breed?" asked the sow. "I breed only one", said the lioness, "but it is very well bred!"' The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly two millennia ago. Aesop was reputedly a tongue-tied slave who miraculously received the power of speech; from his legendary storytelling came the collections of prose and verse fables scattered throughout Greek and Roman literature. First published in English by Caxton in 1484, the fables and their morals continue to charm modern readers: who does not know the story of the tortoise and the hare, or the boy who cried wolf? This new translation is the first to represent all the main fable collections in ancient Latin and Greek, arranged according to the fables' contents and themes. It includes 600 fables, many of which come from sources never before translated into English. 868263 book 1894 Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics) total:2682|5:863|4:1005|3:702|2:101|1:11| 2682 10654 3376 105 5 2 false false Thu Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 12:28:10 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 12:28:10 -0800 2008
Hard work pays off (Farmer and his Sons); don’t lie (Boy and the Wolf); there is a time for work and a time for play (Ant and Grasshopper); some people can’t change (Wolf and...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 00:34:17 -0800 2008 Sat Jun 20 20:39:50 -0700 2009 5 2 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992 Sun Jan 13 01:50:12 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 13:34:45 -0800 2008 3 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 00:02:04 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 08:22:42 -0700 2007
This collection of Aesop's fables contains 600 fables, including the classic fables known universally like the boy who cried wolf, the north wind and the sun, the tortoise and the hare, and the ant and the cricket. Never for once was I bo...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Dec 03 09:50:22 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 09:53:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Dec 31 18:15:58 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 18:18:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1978 Thu Apr 16 09:26:47 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 09:31:28 -0700 2009
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