Aesop’s Fables Illustrated

This illustrated collection includes hundreds of fables that have influenced our world for centuries. The stories attributed to Aesop,a slave and storyteller who lived in Greece around 620ΓÇô564 BCEwere originally passed on through oral tradition before first being transcribed several centuries after his death. Many of these fables use animals as the main characters to convey deeper meanings and morals that have become ingrained in our cultural and personal belief systemssuch as ΓÇ£The Goose That Laid the Golden EggsΓÇ¥ ΓÇ£The Wolf in SheepΓÇÖs ClothingΓÇ¥ and ΓÇ£The Hare and the Tortoise.ΓÇ¥ This elegant leather-bound volume includes 487 fablesalong with more than 100 illustrations by celebrated artists Arthur Rackham and Walter Crane. AesopΓÇÖs Fables is one of the worldΓÇÖs most well-known collections of storiesand has influenced thousands of other literary works. A scholarly introduction examines AesopΓÇÖs life and the oral traditionproviding readers with further insight into the world of the humble storyteller whose presence continues to touch us today.