Three hundred Aesop’s fables: Translated by George Fyler Townsend

Aesop's timeless fables in George Fyler Townsend's classic Victorian translation, three hundred brief tales in which animals speak and act out the enduring lessons of human folly, wisdom and…

At a glance A fox eyes a bunch of grapes just out of reach; a tortoise plods past a napping hare. In a few sentences, Aesop hands down truths that have travelled thousands of years. What it's about Three Hundred Aesop's Fables gathers the celebrated short tales… Each fable is brief, self-contained and pointed, using animals, and sometimes gods or…

Three Hundred Aesop's Fables gathers the celebrated short tales attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller in the widely admired translation of George Fyler Townsend.