AESOP

This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop fables in a collection that will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites - the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and steady tortoise - just as endearingly vivid and relevant now as they were for their very first audience. While their lifespan over several millennia marks them out as one of the most enduring staples of world literature, they have also been the inspiration for countless other forms of narrative in various languages. For all their entertainment value - this is a world where even a lamp and the moon can speak, and mice taunt bulls - they have also come to be fondly regarded as a playful compendium of secular wisdom.

- Diese Ausgabe ist einzigartig;- Die Ubersetzung ist vollstandig original und wurde fur das Ale. Mar. SAS;- Alle Rechte vorbehalten.Asop fur Kinder ist eine vollstandig illustrierte Sammlung von 147 der beliebtesten Fabeln von Asop, einem Sklaven und Geschichtenerzahler, der zwischen 620 und 564 v. Chr. im antiken Griechenland gelebt haben soll. Die Illustrationen stammen von Milo Winter und diese Ausgabe wurde erstmals 1919 veroffentlicht. Die Fabeln wurden erst Jahrhunderte nach Asops Tod schriftlich festgehalten, und obwohl sie ursprunglich fur Erwachsene gedacht waren, wurden sie seit der Renaissance auch fur die Erziehung von Kindern verwendet. In den alten Geschichtsbuchern findet man nur vereinzelte Angaben uber den Geschichtenerzahler, aber die von ihm erzahlten Fabeln werden bis heute weiterverwendet. Zu den Fabeln gehoren Geschichten wie Die Knaben und die Frosche, Die Ameisen und die Heuschrecke, Eine Krahe und ein Schwan, Der Affe und das Kamel, Das Wildschwein und der Fuchs, Der Esel, der Fuchs und der Lowe, Die Vogel, die Tiere und die Fledermaus, Der Lowe, der Bar und der Fuchs; Der Wolf und das Lamm; der Wolf und das Schaf; der Hase und die Frosche; der Fuchs und der Storch; die Reisenden und das Meer; der Wolf und der Lowe; der Hirsch und sein Spiegelbild; der Pfau; die Mause und die Wiesel; der Wolf und der magere Hund und viele mehr.

Aesops Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media.

Aesop was probably a prisoner of war, sold into slavery in the early sixth century BC, who represented his masters in court and negotiations, and relied on animal stories to put across his key points. All these fables, full of humour, insight and savage wit, as well as many fascinating glimpses of ordinary life, have now been brought together for the first time in this definitive and fully annotated modern edition.

Aesop embodies an epigram not uncommon in human history; his fame is all the more deserved because he never deserved it. The firm foundations of common sense, the shrewd shots at uncommon sense, that characterise all the Fables, belong not him but to humanity. In the earliest human history whatever is authentic is universal: and whatever is universal is anonymous. In such cases there is always some central man who had first the trouble of collecting them, and afterwards the fame of creating them. He had the fame; and, on the whole, he earned the fame. There must have been something great and human, something of the human future and the human past, in such a man: even if he only used it to rob the past or deceive the future. The story of Arthur may have been really connected with the most fighting Christianity of falling Rome or with the most heathen traditions hidden in the hills of Wales. But the word "Mappe" or "Malory" will always mean King Arthur; even though we find older and better origins than the Mabinogian; or write later and worse versions than the "Idylls of the King." The nursery fairy tales may have come out of Asia with the Indo-European race, now fortunately extinct; they may have been invented by some fine French lady or gentleman like Perrault: they may possibly even be what they profess to be. But we shall always call the best selection of such tales "Grimms Tales": simply because it is the best collection.

Illus.: Walter Crane

This collection contains the most famous fables of Aesop. Together they present a moral framework that has remained unchanged throughout the centuries.

Translator: George Fyler Townsend

Sardonic, wry and wise, Aesop's Fables are some of the most enduring and well-loved literary creations in history. In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop created a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. Here we see a wily fox outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over a self-confident hare and a fable-teller named Aesop silencing those who mock him. Each jewel-like fable provides a warning about the consequences of wrong-doing, as well as offering a glimpse into the everyday lives of Ancient Greeks.

Aesop was probably a prisoner of war, sold into slavery in the early sixth century BC, who represented his masters in court and negotiations, and relied on animal stories to put across his key points. All these fables, full of humour, insight and savage wit, as well as many fascinating glimpses of ordinary life, have now been brought together for the first time in this definitive and fully annotated modern edition.

The habit of telling stories is one of the most primitive characteristics of the human race. The most ancient civilizations, the most barbarous savages, of whom we have any knowledge have yielded to investigators clear traces of the possession of this practise, The specimens of their narrative that have been gathered from all the ends of the earth and from the remotest times of which we have written record show traces of purpose, now religious and didactic, now patriotic and political; but behind or beside the purpose one can discern the permanent human delight in the story for its own sake.The sopic Fables are allegorical tales The form of the old animistic story is used without any belief in the identity of the personalities of men and animals, but with a conscious double meaning and for the purpose of teaching a lesson. The fable is a product not of the folk but of the learned; and though at times it has been handed down by word of mouth, it is really a literary form.

Aesops Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media.