Aesop S Fables
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Aesop?s Fables ? One of the oldest and more interesting works of humankind
What could be more magical than a collection of fables written before the birth of Christ and known around the world, in one way or the other, by children and adults alike?
In Aesop?s Fables, we are reminded by wolfs, tortoises, frogs and other cosmopolitan fauna, of our own flaws and shortcomings, and of how we have not really changed much in the 2500 years since the slave-born Aesop put together the imaginative and delightful simple allegories that bare his name.
Aesop may have succumbed to the ill faith of one of his characters as in The Wolf and the Lamb - he being the helpless Lamb - paying with his life the boldness of defending morals and free speech.
To our fortune, though, these short stories have survived much longer, and have since been transmitted orally and in writing, through the centuries, generation after generation; some eventually became plays and animations, such as The Hare and the Tortoise, The Ants and the Grasshopper, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, The Goose and the Golden Egs, etc.
These tales are not just great to entertain children or excellent to put them to bed; in fact, they were directed to an adult public since most of them come from an era where information was not easily flowing nor abundant, so the fables were designed to transmit some kind of message and to make the receiver reflect about something ? sort of a Chinese Fortune Cookie?
Whatever the reader is looking for, he or she will find it in the pages of this unpretentious, easily readable book ? ideals, humour, drama, teachings, human nature, wisdom, and entertainment, all is guaranteed.
The moral of the story, as you can read in one of the fables in the book, is:
Better to learn from the mistakes of others than by your own.*
* The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox Who Went Hunting
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