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Aesop's Fables
Contributor(s): Jones, V. S. Vernon (Author)

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 ISBN: 1515291685     ISBN-13: 9781515291688
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $19.23  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2015
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- Literary Collections
Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.03 lbs) 348 pages
 
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Thank you for checking out this children's classic by Guga Books. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. Aesop embodies an epigram not uncommon in human history; his fame is all the more deserved because he never deserved it. The firm foundations of common sense, the shrewd shots at uncommon sense, that characterise all the Fables, belong not him but to humanity. In the earliest human history whatever is authentic is universal: and whatever is universal is anonymous. In such cases there is always some central man who had first the trouble of collecting them, and afterwards the fame of creating them. He had the fame; and, on the whole, he earned the fame. There must have been something great and human, something of the human future and the human past, in such a man: even if he only used it to rob the past or deceive the future. The story of Arthur may have been really connected with the most fighting Christianity of falling Rome or with the most heathen traditions hidden in the hills of Wales. But the word 'Mappe' or 'Malory' will always mean King Arthur; even though we find older and better origins than the Mabinogian; or write later and worse versions than the 'Idylls of the King.'
 
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