Aesop's Fables

By Vernon Jones, V. S.

Book Id: WPLBN0000580424
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Aesop's Fables
Author:	Vernon Jones, V. S.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children's literature, Children's fiction
Collections:	Children's Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Public Library Association


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Excerpt
Excerpt: AESOP embodies an epigram not uncommon in human history; his fame is all the more deserved because he never deserved it. The firm foundations of common sense, the shrewd shots at uncommon sense, that characterize all the Fables, belong not him but to humanity. In the earliest human history whatever is authentic is universal: and whatever is universal is anonymous. In such cases there is always some central man who had first the trouble of collecting them, and afterwards the fame of creating them. He had the fame; and, on the whole, he earned the fame. There must have been something great and human, something of the human future and the human past, in such a man: even if he only used it to rob the past or deceive the future. The story of Arthur may have been really connected with the most fighting Christianity of falling Rome or with the most heathen traditions hidden in the hills of Wales.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: rAGE -- THE FOX AND THE GRAPES 1 -- THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGGS 2 -- THE CAT AND THE MICE 2 -- THE MISCHIEVOUS DOG 3 -- THE CHARCOAL-BURNER AND THE FULLER 4 -- THE MICE IN COUNCIL 4 -- THE BAT AND THE WEASELS 5 -- THE DOG AND THE SOW 5 -- THE FOX AND THE CROW 6 -- THE HORSE AND THE GROOM 6 -- THE WOLF AND THE LAMB 9 -- THE PEACOCK AND THE CRANE 9 -- THE CAT AND THE BIRDS 10 -- THE SPENDTHRIFT AND THE SWALLOW 10 -- THE OLD WOMAN AND THE DOCTOR 13 -- THE MOON AND HER MOTHER 14 -- MERCURY AND THE WOODMAN 14 -- THE ASS, THE FOX, AND THE LION 15 -- THE LION AND THE MOUSE 16 -- XlII