Aesop’s Fables

By: Aesop, Edited by: Jack Zipes

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Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing, and don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs!

These simple allegories — abounding in paradoxes, ambiguities, and ironies — embody great truths. Attributed to a legendary storyteller of ancient Greece, they speak to readers and listeners of all ages and cultures.

 

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It is both amazing and wonderful that so much of the richness of our language and our moral education still owes a huge debt to a Greek slave who was executed more than two thousand years ago. Yet “sour grapes,” “crying ‘wolf,’” “actions speak louder than words,” “honesty is the best policy,” and literally hundreds of other metaphors, axioms, and ideas that are now woven into the very fabric of Western culture all came from Aesop’s Fables.

An extraordinary storyteller who used cunning foxes, surly dogs, clever mice, fearsome lions, and foolish humans to describe the reality of a harsh world, Aesop created narratives that are appealing, funny, politically astute, and profoundly true. And Aesop’s truth—often summed up in the pithy “moral of the story”—retains an awesome power to affect us, reaching us through both our intellects and our hearts.

Including the following:

“The Fox and the Grapes”
“The Ants and the Grasshopper”
“The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse”

…and 200 Other Famous Fables

Edited and with an Afterword by Jack Zipes
With an Introduction by Sam Pickering

 

Additional Information

Weight .3 kg
Dimensions 6 × 3 × .3 in
ISBN

9780451529534

Author

Aesop,
Edited by: Jack Zipes

Publisher

Signet

Format

Paperback

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