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Aesop

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Amorium

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Children's, Fiction, Fable

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620 BC - 564 BC
Tradition considers Greek fabulist Aesop as the author of Aesop's Fables , including "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "The Fox and the Grapes."

This credited ancient man told numerous now collectively known stories. None of his writings, if they ever existed, survive; despite his uncertain existence, people gathered and credited numerous tales across the centuries in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Generally human characteristics of animals and inanimate objects that speak and solve problems characterize many of the tales.

One can find scattered details of his life in ancient sources, including Aristotle, Herodotus, and Plutarch. An ancient literary work, called The Aesop Romance t ...more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 148,959 ratings · 4,594 reviews · 2,431 distinct works • Similar authors

	Aesop’s Fables 4.05 avg rating — 127,805 ratings — published -560 — 2331 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Aesop for Children by Aesop, Milo Winter (Illustrator), H.Y. Xiao (Translation) 4.30 avg rating — 7,571 ratings — published 1919 — 237 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What The Fox Learnt: Four Fables from Aesop 3.67 avg rating — 2,561 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lessons from the Lion, the Ox and their little friends (illustrated) (Four fables from Aesop Book 2) 3.68 avg rating — 825 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon by Aesop, Robert Temple (Translator), Olivia Temple (Translator) 3.62 avg rating — 696 ratings — published -560 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Classic Treasury of Aesop's Fables 4.35 avg rating — 468 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hare and the Tortoise by Aesop, Shirley-Anne Carver really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 1982 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boy Who Cried Wolf and The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs 4.03 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aesop's Fables by Aesop, Bob Blaisdell 4.09 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	]The Lion and the Mouse 4.15 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1989 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Fables (9 books)
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Aesop,

Paul Harvey (Narrator),

V.S. Vernon Jones (Translator),

Kim Braun (Narrator),

Marian Brown (Narrator),

Mike Phillips (Narrator),

rk (Narrator),

fenchurch (Narrator),

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3.69 avg rating — 181 ratings

Classic Tales for the Cellphone Generation (1 book)
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Aesop

4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings

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“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Aesop

tags: compassion, inspirational, kindness

1057 likes

“Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.”
― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

tags: life-lessons

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“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

tags: disguise, double-talk, enemies, falsehood, friends, friendship, reliability

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