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Aesop

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Amorium

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Children's, Fiction, Fable

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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

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Average rating: 4.04 · 151,337 ratings · 4,666 reviews · 2,466 distinct works • Similar authors

	Aesop’s Fables 4.05 avg rating — 129,493 ratings — published -560 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Aesop for Children by Aesop, Milo Winter (Illustrator), H.Y. Xiao (Translation) 4.30 avg rating — 7,679 ratings — published 1919 — 249 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What The Fox Learnt: Four Fables from Aesop 3.67 avg rating — 2,589 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lessons from the Lion, the Ox and their little friends (illustrated) (Four fables from Aesop Book 2) 3.67 avg rating — 836 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon by Aesop, Robert Temple (Translator), Olivia Temple (Translator) 3.60 avg rating — 757 ratings — published -560 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Classic Treasury of Aesop's Fables 4.36 avg rating — 480 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hare and the Tortoise by Aesop, Shirley-Anne Carver 4.06 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 1962 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boy Who Cried Wolf and The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs 4.02 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Treasury of Aesop's Fables by Aesop, Oliver Goldsmith 4.03 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 1973 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	]The Lion and the Mouse 4.14 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1989 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Fables (9 books)
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V.S. Vernon Jones (Translator),

Kim Braun (Narrator),

Marian Brown (Narrator),

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rk (Narrator),

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3.70 avg rating — 183 ratings

Classic Tales for the Cellphone Generation (1 book)
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4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings

Quotes by Aesop (?)

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Aesop

tags: compassion, inspirational, kindness

1070 likes

“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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December 2021 Old School Classics

Metamorphoses by Ovid, 8 AD, 416 pages

53 votes, 23.9%

The Christmas Hirelings by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1894, 261 pages

45 votes, 20.3%

Aesop's Fables by Aesop, -560, 314 pages

42 votes, 18.9%

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, 1848, 288 pages

28 votes, 12.6%

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn, 1688, 144 pages

26 votes, 11.7%

Nana by Émile Zola, 1880, 470 pages

23 votes, 10.4%

Erewhon by Samuel Butler, 1872, 272 pages

5 votes, 2.3%

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