Books with author Aesop

Aesop's Fables have been touchstone tales for thousands of years. Stories like "The Tortoise and the Hare," "The Boy who Cried Wolf" and "The Fox and the Grapes" are just as relevant for today's audiences as they ever were. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This ebook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes Get your next Xist Classic title for Kindle here: http://amzn.to/1A7cKKl Find all our our books for Kindle here: http://amzn.to/1PooxLl Sign up for the Xist Publishing Newsletter here. Find more great titles on our website.

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the fables were written by a slave named Aesop, who lived in Ancient Greece during the 5th century BCE. Aesop's fables and the Indian tradition, as represented by the Buddhist Jataka Tales and the Hindu Panchatantra, share about a dozen tales in common, although often widely differing in detail. There is therefore some debate over whether the Greeks learned these fables from Indian storytellers or the other way, or if the influences were mutual.

Aesop's Fables Have you heard the story of the tortoise and the hare? What about the ant and the grasshopper? Aesop lived more than 2500 years ago, yet his timeless stories continue to entertain, educate and inspire today. Aesop's fables are a collection of stories from the Greek oral tradition. These stories have been used for moral instruction for thousands of years. "The Boy who Cried Wolf" is just one of many of these fables, all of which include a moral. Aesop was a slave and a storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BC. His stories are still being told and retold and this collection is an excellent way to read ancient wisdom in an entertaining form.

Aesop's Fables Have you heard the story of the tortoise and the hare? What about the ant and the grasshopper? Aesop lived more than 2500 years ago, yet his timeless stories continue to entertain, educate and inspire today. Aesop's fables are a collection of stories from the Greek oral tradition. These stories have been used for moral instruction for thousands of years. "The Boy who Cried Wolf" is just one of many of these fables, all of which include a moral. Aesop was a slave and a storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BC. His stories are still being told and retold and this collection is an excellent way to read ancient wisdom in an entertaining form.

In this collection of over three hundred fables, Aesop ravels the morals behind every action in human nature. Included are the favouries “The Shepherd-Boy and the Wolf,” “The Tortoise and the Hare,” and “The Dog and the Shadow.” These time-honoured morals teach children that persuasion is better than force, slow but steady wins the race, and to look before you leap.A fable is often thought of as a story intended to help children learn wholesome values and how to behave within society at large. However, in ancient Greece, fables were used as a means of persuasion, as the moral of a fable can be delivered in an indirect manner. This helped philosophers such as Plato, Aristophanes, and Socrates argue controversial points without offending their audience.This cloth-bound book includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket, and is limited to 100 copies.

Book Description: "Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620–560 BC), a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables, usually involving personified animals. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. Many stories included in Aesop's Fables, such as The Fox and the Grapes (from which the idiom "sour grapes" was derived), The Tortoise and the Hare, The North Wind and the Sun and The Boy Who Cried Wolf, are well-known throughout the world." (Quote from wikipedia.org)Table of Contents: Publisher's Preface; Preface; Life Of Aesop; The Wolf And The Lamb; The Bat And The Weasels; The Ass And The Grasshopper; The Lion And The Mouse; The Charcoal-burner And The Fuller; The Father And His Sons; The Boy Hunting Locusts; The Cock And The Jewel; The Kingdom Of The Lion; The Wolf And The Crane; The Fisherman Piping; Hercules And The Wagoner; The Ants And The Grasshopper; The Traveler And His Dog; The Dog And The Shadow; The Mole And His Mother; The Herdsman And The Lost Bull; The Hare And The Tortoise; The Pomegranate, Apple-tree, And Bramble; The Farmer And The Stork; The Farmer And The Snake; The Fawn And His Mother; The Bear And The Fox; The Swallow And The Crow; The Mountain In Labor; The Ass, The Fox, And The Lion; The Tortoise And The Eagle; The Flies And The Honey-pot; The Man And The Lion; The Farmer And The Cranes; The Dog In The Manger; The Fox And The Goat; The Bear And The Two Travelers; The Oxen And The Axle-trees; The Thirsty Pigeon; The Raven And The Swan; The Goat And The Goatherd; The Miser; The Sick Lion; The Horse And Groom; The Ass And The Lapdog; The Lioness; The Boasting Traveler; The Cat And The Cock; The Piglet, The Sheep, And The Goat; The Boy And The Filberts; The Lion In Love; The Laborer And The Snake; The Wolf In Sheep's Clothing; The Ass And The Mule; The Frogs Asking For A King; The Boys And The Frogs; The Sick Stag; The Salt Merchant And His Ass; The Oxen And The Butchers; The Lion, The Mouse, And The Fox; The Vain Jackdaw; The Goatherd And The Wild Goats; The Mischievous Dog; The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail; The Boy And The Nettles; The Man And His Two Sweethearts; The Astronomer; The Wolves And The Sheep; The Old Woman And The Physician; The Fighting Cocks And The Eagle; The Charger And The Miller; The Fox And The Monkey; The Horse And His Rider; The Belly And The Members; The vine And The Goat; Jupiter And The Monkey; The Widow And Her Little Maidens; The Shepherd's Boy And The Wolf; The Cat And The Birds; The Kid And The Wolf; The Ox And The Frog; The Shepherd And The Wolf; The Father And His Two Daughters; The Farmer And His Sons; The Crab And Its Mother; The Heifer And The Ox; The Swallow, The Serpent, And The Court Of Justice; The Thief And His Mother; The Old Man And Death; The Fir-tree And The Bramble; The Mouse, The Frog, And The Hawk; The Man Bitten By A Dog; The Two Pots; The Wolf And The Sheep; The Aethiop; The Fisherman And His Nets; The Huntsman And The Fisherman; The Old Woman And The Wine-jar; The Fox And The Crow; The Two Dogs; The Stag In The Ox-stall; The Hawk, The Kite, And The Pigeons; The Widow And The Sheep; The Wild Ass And The Lion; The Eagle And The Arrow; The Sick Kite; The Lion And The Dolphin; The Lion And The Boar; The One-eyed Doe; The Shepherd And The Sea; The Ass, The Cock, And The Lion; The Mice And The Weasels; The Mice In Council; The Wolf And The Housedog; The Rivers And The Sea; The Playful Ass; The Three Tradesmen; The Master And His Dogs; The Wolf And The Shepherds; The Dolphins, The Whales, And The Sprat; The Ass Carrying The Image; The Two Travelers And The Axe; The Old Lion; The Old Hound; The Bee And Jupiter; The Milk-woman And Her Pail; The Seaside Travelers; The Brazier And His Dog; The Ass And His Shadow; The Ass And His Masters; The Oak And The Reeds; The Fisherman And

This is a collection of tales from the Greek story teller, Aesop. Aesop was a slave in ancient Greece. He was a keen observer of both animals and people. Most of the characters in his stories are animals, some of which take on human characteristic and are personified in ways of speech and emotions. However, the majority of his character retain their animalistic qualities; tortoise are slow, hares are quick, tigers eat bird, etc. Aesop uses these qualities and natural tendencies of animals to focus on human traits and wisdom. Each fable has an accompanying moral to be learned from the tale.

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 characterise 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. But the word "Mappe" or "Malory" will always mean King Arthur; even though we find older and better origins than the Mabinogian; or write later and worse versions than the "Idylls of the King." The nursery fairy tales may have come out of Asia with the Indo-European race, now fortunately extinct; they may have been invented by some fine French lady or gentleman like Perrault: they may possibly even be what they profess to be. But we shall always call the best selection of such tales "Grimm's Tales": simply because it is the best collection.The historical Aesop, in so far as he was historical, would seem to have been a Phrygian slave, or at least one not to be specially and symbolically adorned with the Phrygian cap of liberty. He lived, if he did live, about the sixth century before Christ, in the time of that Croesus whose story we love and suspect like everything else in Herodotus. There are also stories of deformity of feature and a ready ribaldry of tongue: stories which (as the celebrated Cardinal said) explain, though they do not excuse, his having been hurled over a high precipice at Delphi. It is for those who read the Fables to judge whether he was really thrown over the cliff for being ugly and offensive, or rather for being highly moral and correct. But there is no kind of doubt that the general legend of him may justly rank him with a race too easily forgotten in our modern comparisons: the race of the great philosophic slaves. Aesop may have been a fiction like Uncle Remus: he was also, like Uncle Remus, a fact. It is a fact that slaves in the old world could be worshipped like Aesop, or loved like Uncle Remus. It is odd to note that both the great slaves told their best stories about beasts and birds.But whatever be fairly due to Aesop, the human tradition called Fables is not due to him. This had gone on long before any sarcastic freedman from Phrygia had or had not been flung off a precipice; this has remained long after. It is to our advantage, indeed, to realise the distinction; because it makes Aesop more obviously effective than any other fabulist. Grimm's Tales, glorious as they are, were collected by two German students. And if we find it hard to be certain of a German student, at least we know more about him than We know about a Phrygian slave. The truth is, of course, that Aesop's Fables are not Aesop's fables, any more than Grimm's Fairy Tales were ever Grimm's fairy tales. But the fable and the fairy tale are things utterly distinct. There are many elements of difference; but the plainest is plain enough. There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.

Timeless tales of inspiration and enlightenmentIn ancient Greece, a storyteller named Aesop captivated his listeners with tales both beautiful and instructive. Thousands of years later, his fables—from “The Ant and the Grasshopper” to “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” to “The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg” to “The Tortoise and the Hare”—have lost none of their power to guide and entertain.This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

'The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole litter of piglets loudly accosted a lioness. "How many children do you breed?" asked the sow. "I breed only one," said the lioness, "but he is very well bred!"' The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly two millennia ago. Aesop was reputedly a tongue-tied slave who miraculously received the power of speech; from his legendary storytelling came the collections of prose and verse fables scattered throughout Greek and Roman literature. First published in English by Caxton in 1484, the fables and their morals continue to charm modern readers: who does not know the stories of the tortoise and the hare, and the boy who cried wolf? This new translation is the first to represent all the main fable collections in ancient Latin and Greek, arranged according to the fables' contents and themes. It includes 600 fables, many of which come from sources never before translated into English.