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Aesop (left) as depicted by Francis Barlow in the 1687 edition of Aesop's Fables with His Life.. Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE.
A picture by François Chauveau, illustrator of the original edition of the Fables. Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse.
The Revolver (El revólver) is a short story by Emilia Pardo Bazán, which was first published in 1895. [1] Ángel Flores later translated it from Spanish to English in 1960. [1] It became one of Pardo Bazán’s classic works in feminist literature.
La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (The Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea), or simply the Polifemo, is a literary work written by Spanish poet Luis de Góngora y Argote.The poem, though borrowing heavily from prior literary sources of Greek and Roman Antiquity, attempts to go beyond the established versions of the myth by reconfiguring the narrative structure handed down by Ovid.
He was born and died in Laguardia, Álava, in the Basque Country, and was educated at Valladolid.A government appointment was secured for him by his uncle the Count de Peñaflorida.
"Cinderella", [a] or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with 69 variants that are told throughout the world. [2] [3] The protagonist is a young girl living in forsaken circumstances who is suddenly blessed by remarkable fortune, with her ascension to the throne via marriage.
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 ...
Silo is a dystopian series of post-apocalyptic science fiction books by American writer Hugh Howey.The series started in 2011 with the short story "Wool", which was later published together with four sequel novellas as a novel with the same name.