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The Eagle and the Hawk
(1990)
I am glad to see this fable show up here. The lonesome single female eagle gives in to the promises of the male hawk that, if they marry, he will support her well and bring her even a big dog. After they marry, she asks ...
The Groaning Volcano
(1990)
This version is perhaps this series' most extensive (and confused?) transformation of a traditional fable. The volcano groans. Some think it is an earthquake; women think that there is a giant inside the mountain wanting ...
The Prince and the Cat
(1990)
Note that the beloved here is a prince. The angle (sic) of love appears at the castle in response to the cat's crying. Here the transformation has as its explicit condition that the cat change her whole nature, and the ...
The cock and the Fox
(1990)
The Chanticleer story is here in its basic outlines. This is my cock is the mouth-opening cry of the fox that lets the cock loose. People arrive in time to beat this fox. The moral may lack grammar but takes an interesting ...
The Big Crab and a Little Crab
(1990)
Note that these two crabs are not (as is traditional for this fable) related to each other. The problem seems to be not whether the crab will walk forward but whether it will walk straight. Look to yourself before criticism ...
The Hares and the Frogs
(1990)
Straightforward rendition. Moral: There is always someone worse off than yourself.
The Oak and the Reed
(1990)
My favorite sentence in this story is The reed still leans along the strong wind.
Aesop's Fables
(Harper & Brothers, 1927)
I had found what I thought to be a first edition of this book earlier from Greg Williams. This copy is, like that, a pictorial black cloth octavo with a colored frontispiece and three other full-page colored illustrations. ...
Aesop's Fables
(Harper & Brothers, 1927)
This book is very similar to two others in the collection. All show a publication date of 1927. Like the Ten Editions book, this edition states First Edition with Louis Rhead's Pictures. Unlike either of those books, ...
Die Diebe und der Hahn: Fabeln des Äsop und Äsopische Fabeln des Phädrus
(Verlag Philipp Reclam Jun., 1975)
This is the third version I have of this book. The other two seem to have been the original East German done by Buchverlag der Morgen in Berlin in 1966 and a 1975 follow-up by VMA Verlag in Wiesbaden. The present copy ...