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The Fox and the Grapes is one of Aesop's Fables, [1] numbered 15 in the Perry Index. [2] The narration is concise and subsequent retellings have often been equally so. The story concerns a fox that tries to eat grapes from a vine but cannot reach them. Rather than admit defeat, he states they are undesirable.
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Guilherme Figueiredo (1932) Guilherme Figueiredo (1915–1997) was a Brazilian dramatist.He is best known for his play The Fox and the Grapes (A raposa e as uvas) in 1953 about Aesop's life, which won various awards, including the Atur Azevedo prize from the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Tashlin directed the first film in the series, the 1941 Color Rhapsody short The Fox and the Grapes, loosely based on the Aesop fable of that name. Warner Bros. animation director Chuck Jones later acknowledged this short, which features a series of blackout gags as the Fox repeatedly tries and fails to obtain a bunch of grapes in the possession of the Crow, as one of the inspirations for his ...
The Fox and the Weasel is a title used to cover a complex of fables in which a number of other animals figure in a story with the same basic situation involving the unfortunate effects of greed. Of Greek origin, it is counted as one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 24 in the Perry Index .
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.
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A crab-eating fox. The tale of the crab and the fox is of Greek origin and is counted as one of Aesop's fables; it is numbered 116 in the Perry Index. [1] The moral is that one comes to grief through not sticking to one's allotted role in life