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Aesop


Born
Amorium
Genre
Children's, Fiction, Fable


620 BC - 564 BC
Tradition considers Greek fabulist Aesop as the author of Aesop's Fables , including "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "The Fox and the Grapes."

This credited ancient man told numerous now collectively known stories. None of his writings, if they ever existed, survive; despite his uncertain existence, people gathered and credited numerous tales across the centuries in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Generally human characteristics of animals and inanimate objects that speak and solve problems characterize many of the tales.

One can find scattered details of his life in ancient sources, including Aristotle, Herodotus, and Plutarch. An ancient literary work, called The Aesop Romance t ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 4.04 · 152,849 ratings · 4,822 reviews · 2,528 distinct works • Similar authors
Aesop’s Fables
4.05 avg rating — 130,463 ratings — published -560 — 2321 editions
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The Aesop for Children
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4.30 avg rating — 7,724 ratings — published 1919 — 249 editions
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What The Fox Learnt: Four F...
3.67 avg rating — 2,591 ratings — published 2011
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Lessons from the Lion, the ...
3.67 avg rating — 833 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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The Dolphins, the Whales an...
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The Classic Treasury of Aes...
4.35 avg rating — 492 ratings — 2 editions
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The Hare and the Tortoise
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4.06 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 1962 — 71 editions
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf and ...
4.03 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
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Aesop's Fables: The Classic...
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Treasury of Aesop's Fables
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4.01 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1973 — 9 editions
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Quotes by Aesop  (?)
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“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Aesop
tags: compassion, inspirational, kindness
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“Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables
tags: life-lessons
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“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables
tags: disguise, double-talk, enemies, falsehood, friends, friendship, reliability
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Polls

June 2021 Old School Classic Group Read Poll

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, 1722, 239 pages
 
  49 votes, 19.8%

Aesop's Fables by Aesop, -560, 300 pages
 
  44 votes, 17.8%

The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 1830, 608 pages
 
  33 votes, 13.4%

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, 1899, 562 pages
 
  24 votes, 9.7%

 
  24 votes, 9.7%

Basil by Wilkie Collins, 1852, 282 pages
 
  19 votes, 7.7%

The Saga of the Volsungs by Anonymous, 1275, 145 pages
 
  18 votes, 7.3%

The Odd Women by George Gissing, 1893, 432 pages
 
  15 votes, 6.1%

 
  14 votes, 5.7%

 
  7 votes, 2.8%

247 total votes
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