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  2. Aesop's Fables - Wikipedia

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    Brownhills alphabet plate, Aesop's Fables series, The Fox and the Grapes c. 1880. Sharpe's limerick versions of Aesop's fables appeared in 1887. This was in a magnificently hand-produced Arts and Crafts Movement edition, The Baby's Own Aesop: being the fables condensed in rhyme with portable morals pictorially pointed by Walter Crane. [94]

  3. List of Aesop's Fables - Wikipedia

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    This are a list of those fables attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller, Aesop, or stories about him, which have been in many Wikipedia articles. Many hundreds of others have been collected his creation of fables over the centuries, as described on the Aesopica website. [1]

  4. The Eagle and the Fox - Wikipedia

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    An original fable by Laurentius Abstemius demonstrates the kinship between the story of "The Eagle and the Fox" and another by Aesop about The Eagle and the Beetle.In the Abstemius story, an eagle seizes some young rabbits to feed its young and tears them to pieces despite their mother's plea for mercy, thinking that an earth-bound creature could do it no harm.

  5. The Country Mouse and the City Mouse - Wikipedia

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    The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse (1687), English satire by Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax; The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse (1918), English children's book by Beatrix Potter based on "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse"

  6. The Old Woman and the Wine-jar - Wikipedia

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    The story appears in the form of a short anecdote in the collection of Phaedrus and concerns an old woman who comes across an empty wine jar, the lingering smell of which she appreciatively sniffs and praises, saying 'Oh sweet spirits, I do declare, how excellent you must once have been to have left behind such fine remains!' [1] Phaedrus is playing with the comic stereotype of the drunken old ...

  7. The Frogs Who Desired a King - Wikipedia

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    In the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables, Arthur Rackham chose to picture the carefree frogs at play on their King Log, a much rarer subject among illustrators. [13] But the French artist Benjamin Rabier, having already illustrated a collection of La Fontaine's fables, subverted the whole subject in a later picture, Le Toboggan ('The sleigh-run ...

  8. The milkmaid and her pail - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Godard, the first of his Six Fables de La Fontaine (Op. 17 1872/9) [33] [34] Louis Lacombe for piano and voice (Op. 73.3, 1875) [35] Abbé Léon-Robert Brice, who set it to a traditional melody, adjusting the poem to six-syllable lines to fit the music [36] Isabelle Aboulker in the children's operetta La Fontaine et le Corbeau (1999) [37]

  9. The North Wind and the Sun - Wikipedia

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    The North Wind and the Sun is one of Aesop's Fables (Perry Index 46). It is type 298 (Wind and Sun) in the Aarne–Thompson folktale classification. [1] The moral it teaches about the superiority of persuasion over force has made the story widely known. It has also become a chosen text for phonetic transcriptions.