Presents 147 fables of Aesop, including "The Hare and the Tortoise," "Belling the Cat," and "The Fox and the Grapes."

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A collection of nearly sixty fables from Aesop, including such familiar ones as "The Grasshopper and the Ants," "The North Wind and the Sun," "Androcles and the Lion," "The Troublesome Dog," and "The Fox and the Stork."

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stiffing slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned- a razor-edged fairy tale for grown ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen...

Retells 12 familiar Aesop's fables including "The Rabbit and the Turtle," "The Lion and the Mouse," and "The Wolf and the Lamb."

After trading houses, the country mice and the town mice discover there's no place like home.

A boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running--and then one day a wolf is really there, but no one answers his call.

A collection of short moral tales first told by the Greek slave Aesop.