Aesops Fables, Aesop
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Aesop’s Fables
A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton

Author: Aesop, V. S. Vernon Jones, G. K. Chesterton

Narrator: Will Stauff

Unabridged: 3 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/14/2020


Synopsis

Aesop’s Fables refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620–560 BC), a slave and storyteller who lived in Ancient Greece. His fables are some of the most well known in the world and remain a popular choice for the moral education of children today. Many stories included in Aesop’s Fables, such as “The Fox and the Grapes” (from which the idiom “sour grapes” was derived), “The Tortoise and the Hare,” “The North Wind and the Sun,” and “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” are well-known throughout the world.

Author Bio

Aesop (620-560 BC) was a slave in ancient Greece who is known only for the genre of fables that are ascribed to him. The various collections that go under the rubric "Aesop's Fables" are still taught as moral lessons and used as subjects for various entertainments, especially children's plays and cartoons.

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