The Fables of ÆSop

Attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller Aesop, these fables are brief narratives in which animals and occasional human figures act out a single situation - a race, a bargain, a threat - and suffer the consequence of vanity, cruelty, or misplaced trust. A lion and a mouse, a tortoise and a hare, a wolf in a borrowed skin, and similar pairs recur as types rather than as characters in a serial story. Each piece is self-contained and usually closes with an explicit lesson. The volume is a traditional fable book, not an epic and not a children's novel with one hero.

Bound in light brown buckram cover blocked with a design in red, green and gold. Dark green slipcase and endpapers.