# The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon

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- Authors: [Aesop](https://www.bookquiver.com/aesop)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4139-844-0
- Published: 2015-02-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...' Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpses of a world that is harsh, pitiless and yet also eerily familiar.