# Aesop’s Fables

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- Book: [Aesop’s Fables](https://www.bookquiver.com/robin-waterfield/aesops-fables) ([Aesop’s Fables.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robin-waterfield/aesops-fables.md))
- Authors: [Robin Waterfield](https://www.bookquiver.com/robin-waterfield), [Aesop](https://www.bookquiver.com/aesop)
- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-15-4160-484-1
- Published: 2024-11-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

From a renowned scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aesop's Fables Aesop's fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stories in the world. Tales like " The Tortoise and the Hare," " The Dog in the Manger," and " Sour Grapes" have captivated us for generations. The fables delight us and teach timeless truths. Aesop's tales offer us a world fundamentally simpler to ours-one with clear good and plain evil-but nonetheless one that is marked by political nuance and literary complexity. Newly translated and annotated by renowned scholar Robin Waterfield, this definitive translation shines a new light on four hundred of Aesop's most enduring fables.