Aesop's Fables - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Aesop, Sam Pickering (Introduction by), Jack Zipes (Editor)Series:Signet ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2004-10-05Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Signet BookISBN-13:9780451529534ISBN-10:451529537UPC:9780451529534Book Category:Social Science, FictionBook Subcategory:Folklore & Mythology, ClassicsSize:6.90 x 4.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCVP5VEMV1
Aesop's Fables
This exclusive Signet Classic edition contains 203 of Aesop's most enduring and popular fables, translated into readable, modern American English and beautifully illustrated with classic woodcuts by the great French artist J. J. Grandville. 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...
Series: Signet Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Signet BookISBN-13:9780451529534ISBN-10:451529537UPC:9780451529534Book Category:Social Science, FictionBook Subcategory:Folklore & Mythology, ClassicsSize:6.90 x 4.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCVP5VEMV1
Aesop, according to various sources, was born in Phrygia, Lydia, Thrace, or Sardis, and lived from about 620 to 560 B.C. Little is known about his life, but Aristotle mentioned his acting as a public defender, and Plutarch numbered him as one of the "Seven Wise Men." It is generally believed he was a slave, freed by his master because of his wit and wisdom. As Aesop became famous for his fables,...
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