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Fables

Joseph Jacobs

195448 pagesabout 1 hour
1954
first published
  • 1981Hodder & Stoughton · 152 pages · ENGISBN 9780340267691
  • 1984201 pages · ENGISBN 9781850070450
  • 2003Kessinger Publishing · 400 pages · ENGISBN 9780766151666
  • 2003Echo Library · 56 pages · ENGISBN 9781847027207
  • 2007BiblioBazaar · 136 pages · ENGISBN 9781426445682
  • 2007BiblioBazaar · 150 pages · ENGISBN 9781426445729
  • 1998Longman · 48 pages · ENGISBN 9780582334052
  • 1954Penguin Classics · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780140440430

The world's oldest known collection of fables and folk tales. Some of the stories credited to Aesop, a Greek slave who lived in about the sixth century BCE, are known in every corner of the globe, such as 'The Tortoise and the Hare' and 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'. Other familiar tales are 'The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs', 'The Fox and the Grapes' and ''The Ant and the Grasshopper'.

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