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  2. The Tortoise and the Hare - Wikipedia

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    A 19th-century illustration of La Fontaine's Fables by Jean Grandville. There is a Greek version of the fable but no early Latin version. For this reason it did not begin to appear in printed editions of Aesop's fables until the 16th century, one of the earliest being Bernard Salomon's Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien, mises en Ryme Francoise (1547 ...

  3. The miller, his son and the donkey - Wikipedia

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    The same story is told among the "100 Fables" (Fabulae Centum) of Gabriele Faerno (1564) [11] and as the opening poem in Giovanni Maria Verdizotti's Cento favole morali (1570). [12] It also appeared in English in Merry Tales and Quick Answers or Shakespeare's Jest Book (c. 1530) with the same ending of the old man throwing the ass into the ...

  4. The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble - Wikipedia

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    The fable has since been reprinted in The Thurber Carnival (Harper and Brothers, 1945), James Thurber: Writings and Drawings (The Library of America, 1996, ISBN 1-883011-22-1), The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales, and other publications. The story is often used in classes that teach English as a second language.

  5. The Old Man and his Sons - Wikipedia

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    The moral drawn from the fable by Babrius was that "Brotherly love is the greatest good in life and often lifts the humble higher". In his emblem book Hecatomgraphie (1540), Gilles Corrozet reflected on it that if there can be friendship among strangers, it is even more of a necessity among family members. [4]

  6. Fable - Wikipedia

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    Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE. Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or ...

  7. The Fisherman and His Wife - Wikipedia

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    In "British Folk Tales and Legends a Sampler" Katherine Briggs pp.40-43 noted a British variant collected in 1924 called 'The Old Woman who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle' with a magical fairy rather than a fish. This was also the title of Rumer Godden's 1972 re-telling, based upon a family tradition of story-telling.

  8. The Farmer and his Sons - Wikipedia

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    The fable is also included in Isabelle Aboulker's Les Fables Enchantées (2004). [ 15 ] There have also been French dramatic treatments, including the three-act comédie rustique of 1935 by H. Frederic Pottecher (1905–2001) [ 16 ] and the 1936 one-act version by painter-playwright Henri Brochet (1898–1952).

  9. The Farmer and the Viper - Wikipedia

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    The family welcomes the frozen snake, a woodcut by Ernest Griset. The Farmer and the Viper is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 176 in the Perry Index. [1] It has the moral that kindness to evil will be met by betrayal and is the source of the idiom "to nourish a viper in one's bosom".