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Aesop is famous for his fables, each containing a nugget of insight and wisdom or moral which Aesop draws for the reader. This 1912 translation includes beautiful full color illustrations alongside ones rendered in black and white. Making this edition even more desirable is its foreword by G.K. Chesterton, the author of "The Everlasting Man."

Aesop's Fables is a collection of stories credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and include such favorites as The Fox and the Grapes, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Farmer and the Stork, The North Wind and the Sun, The Ant and the Grasshopper and hundreds more.

The book gathers the best of a thousand years of philosophy, history and literature, in a compilation of writing spanning from 800 BC to 200 AD. With selections from the five major schools of Greek thought-the Platonists, the Aristotelians, the Stoics, the Epicureans, and the Skeptics-it offers guidance for a life well lived.

'Help! A wolf is eating my sheep!' What happens when a bored shepherd boy lies to the people in his village - or when he later tells the truth?

An Unabridged Printing Of Milo Winter's Fully Illustrated Color Edition To Include, "The Hare And The Tortoise," "Belling The Cat," And "The Fox And The Grapes," With 147 Fables In Total this is a Children's Classic

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 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 Fox and the Grapes""The Ants and the Grasshopper""The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse"…and 200 Other Famous FablesEdited and with an Afterword by Jack ZipesWith an Introduction by Sam Pickering