num_pages: 256
description: So deeply embedded in our everyday language that we derive our commonest expressions from them, the fables of Aesop are well known to every child long before he can read.In this collection, the clarity and wisdom of the fables are demonstrated in a simple and elegant translation by S.A. Handford. From the best-known examples - the dog in the manger, the boy who cried wolf - to much less familiar tales, here is the complete version of over two hundred stories. Each has its own sharply pointed moral and its individual cast of characters, some anthropomorphically animal, others all too recognizably human.
title: Fables of Aesop
titlecomplete: Fables of Aesop
genres: Short Stories, Fiction, Literature, Philosophy, Childrens, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Folklore, Mythology, Classics
ratings_count: 124159
publisher: Penguin Classics