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Nouveau Recueil de Fables d'Ésope
(Ancienne Librairie Poussielgue, 1893)
Here are sixty-five Greek fables, with plenteous footnotes, followed by a lexicon. The pedagogical arrangement of the fables is this: they are grouped according to what they can teach. Thus the first four fables show ...
Die Schildkröte und der Hase
(Xenos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1998)
A stop in Wolfenbüttel to find a banana across from the train stop yielded this booklet and a parallel little volume! It seems not to be related to the one other sound-making fable book I am aware of having, The Tortoise ...
The Word-Picture Fable Book, or Old Aesop in a New Dress
(T. Nelson and Sons Paternoster Row,, 1872)
One first encounters here a lovely colored pasted-on illustration of FG on the cloth cover. Inside are twenty-two fables offered in rebus form. Beginning on 75 there is a key, a collection of standard tellings of the ...
Aesop's (Oh So Slightly) Updated Fables
(Baker's Plays, 1998)
Here are six fables as engaging contemporary plays. In each case the drama takes a playful approach to the fable. Thus DS can engage in good irony when it has the narrator speak of the butcher trying to have a sincere ...
Aesop's Fables
(Dan Celani, 1990)
Here is a sixteen-page pamphlet about 5 x 7 offering sixteen fables in a nicely printed little version. The texts are taken from 19th century publications. SW (6) is told in the poorer version. An inserted note tells ...
Fables (Polish)
(Unia Wydawnicza Verum, 1996)
This very sturdy and attractive book offers an excellent collection of fables from across history, with a good eye for those closest to Poles. The book works chronologically. While most of the illustrations, even for ...
Esopo: Favole
(Newton Compton editori s.r.l., 1995)
Here is a large bilingual paperback text of 358 fables in Greek and Italian prose. The fables themselves are preceded by an introduction, a translator's preface, and a moderate bibliography. The bibliography mentions ...
Esopo: Favole
(Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 1990)
Here is a straightforward paperback text of 358 fables, preceded by two introductions and three pages of critical testimony to Aesop, and followed by indices first of fable characters and then of historical personages. ...
Esopo: Favole
(Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1996)
Here is a slick-covered paperback--it actually looks like a Penguin paperback--offering the 358 Greek prose fables of Chambry's 1927 edition together with Italian prose translations on the facing page. Like its partner ...
Fables d'Ésope 1: Les Animaux
(Editions CorentinÉditions Corentin, 1995)
This is a tight little book, 6 x 7¾. It contains ninety-six of Aesop's fables in a version done by Hachette in 1913 without attribution to an author. To go with those texts there are seventeen full-page illustrations ...