Bewick's Select Fables of Æsop and others. In three parts. 1. Fables extracted from Dodsley's. 2. Fables with reflections in prose and verse

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“Bewick's Select Fables of Æsop and others. In three parts. 1. Fables extracted from Dodsley's. 2. Fables with reflections in prose and verse” is a book by Aesop in the “Psychology & Society” category, written in English. It is in the public domain, so you can read it for free from the open source using the buttons above. If you enjoyed it, press Like to help others find it. Similar books are listed below.

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Aesop is said to have been a slave on the Greek island of Samos in the sixth century BC who won his freedom through his wit. The historian Herodotus mentions him, and a later popular romance, The Life of Aesop, made him an ugly, clever storyteller who outwitted his masters and died unjustly at Delphi.

Whether or not he wrote them, the short animal fables told under his name, collected in Aesop's Fables, have been retold for two and a half thousand years. Their cousin in Arabic literature is Kalila wa Dimna.