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Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables

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Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables

Aesop’s Fables date back to the 6th century before our era, but they are just as much alive as they used to be back then. The wisdom, the fun, and the simple, but highly educational entertainment these short stories offer rank them among the finest literary creations of the Western World – and great bedtime stories for kids, too.

The three hundred fables left to us by Aesop entertain with talking plants and animals and bring on deep wisdom with each story. It is interesting to note that there are very few fables that feature human beings – after all, attributing human features to plants and animals is so much more fun, and it allows the writer to make fun of any of these human features without actually hurting anyone. However, this kind of writing is like walking on eggshells: the animal and plant characters need to be very carefully placed into context and rounded to be able to convey the right message – an Aesop is a master of such transformations.

One literary theorist defined fables as extended proverbs and indeed, some of the stories elaborate and transform already existing proverbs into stories, while others have created proverbs we are still using today. Aesop’s fables, the characters he writes about, the wisdom and the conclusions drawn at the end of the stories, the criticism he brings to society and human nature have successfully made their way not only in our everyday thinking, but into contemporary art as well. The three hundred distinct pieces in this book feature stories that we can recognize in movies, paintings and many other forms of art, even in pieces of music such as operas – but where else could you get to know this old, but very modern world if not from a collection of the original stories?
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