Author: Aesop, Hugh Fraser
Narrator: Natasha-Lee Lewis
Unabridged: 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Storynory
Published: 04/29/2007
Categories: Children's Fiction, Fairy Tales
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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