Author: Aesop
Published: this particular addition was published in 1979, but the fables have been around for hundreds of years.
Category: Classics
Genre: fables/fantasy/mythology
Pages: 262
Summary on Goodreads: This is the first translation ever to make available the complete corpus of 358 fables. Aesop was probably a prisoner of war, sold into slavery in the early sixth century BCE, who represented his masters in court and negotiations and relied on animal stories to put across his key points. Such fables vividly reveal the strange superstitions of ordinary ancient Greeks, how they treated their pets, how they spoilt their sons and even what they kept in their larders. As these stories became well-known, 'Aesopic' one-liners were widely quoted at drinking-parties, and the collection eventually came to include more satirical tales of alien creatures - apes, camels, lions and elephants - which presumably originate in Libya and Egypt. All have now been brought together in this definitive and fully annotated modern edition.
Notes: there are several versions of these tales available, as well as different versions of any classic I put on here. I'm going by the Penguin classics because they'll be the most widely available and are usually the best versions you can get.
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