Aesop'S Fables - Aesop

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Résumé :
A timeless mirror of human nature, and a doorway to curiosity. Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Version from Original Sources brings the classic stories alive with clarity, charm, and quiet grandeur. This restored edition gathers the classic fable collection into a living, breathing experience for today's readers. The volume presents the complete short stories in a form that invites both casual enjoyment and classroom engagement: moral tales for children threaded with sharp wit, cleverness and wit, honesty and deceit, virtue and vice. Richly illustrated animal fables unfold with economy and warmth, offering gentle rites of passage that work as bedtime stories for kids and as thoughtful reflections for grownups alike. Rooted in the ancient greek mediterranean and the classical fable tradition, the book resonates with a long arc of storytelling that La Fontaine and others expanded, while remaining immediately accessible. Aesop's Fables is more than a reprint. It is a restored treasure, republished by Alpha Editions for today's and future generations. For collectors and casual readers, it is a cultural treasure-an indispensable reference in any library of timeless literature. The edition stands as a bridge between centuries, inviting new readers to discover the enduring craft of moral storytelling and to revisit the familiar echoes of classic wisdom....

Biographie:
Aesop, or ?sop (from the Greek ??????? Aisopos), known only for his fables, was by tradition a slave of African descent who lived from about 620 to 560 bc in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables are still taught as moral lessons and used as subjects for various entertainments, especially children's plays and cartoons. Aesop wrote thousands of fables, his most famous fable is The Lion and the Mouse. Nothing was known about Aesop from credible records. The tradition was that he was at one point freed from slavery and that he eventually died at the hands of Delphians. In fact, the obscurity shrouding his life has led some scholars to deny his existence altogether. His most famous fable in America is a parable of The Tortoise and the Hare. In this story, a rabbit challenges a tortoise to a race. The rabbit is sure of its victory and as a result, depending on the version of the story, in some way completes the race slower than the turtle. Often, the hare takes a nap or takes too many breaks. The persistent tortoise, despite being slower, wins because it persevered....