Books with title Fables From Afar

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Excerpt from Fables From AfarMost of the fables in this little book are very old - older than the well-known Æsop's fables. For hundreds and hundreds of years the children in far-off lands have listened to them with pleasure.It is in the hope that you will enjoy them as much as the children of long ago in India, China, Japan, and the Isles of the Sea that this little collection of the old, old stories has been made.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Hardcover, by Ennis Rees with illustrations by J.J. Grandville, published by Oxford University Press, NY, 1966. Dj has b/w illustrations on both panels. Publisher's statement: "Mr. Rees's version of the fables is complemented by the inclusion of many of the wood engravings that J.J. Granville made for an 1838 edition of La Fontaine's Fables,illustrations in which the animals of the stories are sharply characterized." Illustrations are b/w. Includes 187 fables (forty-two were previously published in Poems by Ennis Rees in 1964, six previously published in Arion 3). Publisher's statement: "The wit and vigor with which Ennis Rees retells these one hundred and eighty-seven traditional tales will appeal to readers young and old. As he says, "I have tried to re-create selected fables in verse for our time, and to do it in as lively a way as I could consistent with simplicity." Each age makes its own version of that body of anonymous lore that the ancients ascribed to "Aesop," of whom we know little beyond legend. According to tradition, he was a slave who lived in about the sixth century before Christ. In many instances, fables ascribed are surely kindred to fables of India and China, as well as to certain of the Brer Rabbit tales--all from that ocean of story that has encircled the globe since time immemorial...Mr. Rees's version of the fables is complemented by the inclusion of many of the wood engravings that J.J. Grandville made for an 1838 edition of La Fontaine's Fables, illustrations in which the animals of the stories are sharply characterized."