Aesop's Fables (Signet Classics) - Softcover

Aesop

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451529537 ISBN 13: 9780451529534

Verlag: Signet, 2004

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Book by Aesop Editor Zipes Jack David Editor Zipes Jack

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Reseña del editor

Filled with hundreds of metaphors, axioms, and ideas, a brilliant adaptation of the classic fables includes "The Fox and the Grapes," "The Ant and the Grasshopper," "The Country Mouse and the City Mouse," and two hundred others. Reprint.

Biografía del autor

Aesop, according to various sources, was born in Phrygia, Lydia, Thrace, or Sardis, and lived from about 620 to 560 B.C. Little is known about his life, but Aristotle mentioned his acting as a public defender, and Plutarch numbered him as one of the “Seven Wise Men.” It is generally believed he was a slave, freed by his master because of his wit and wisdom. As Aesop became famous for his fables, which used animals as a code to tell the truth about political injustice, he incurred the wrath of the rulers, either in Athens or Delphi, and was executed. In about 300 B.C., Demetrius Phalereus of Athens made the first known collection of Aesop’s fables, which then spread far beyond the Greek world.
 
Jack Zipes is a professor of German at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of several books of fairy tales, including Breaking the Magic Spell and Don’t Bet on the Prince. He is also the editor of several volumes of fairy tales, including Beauties, Beasts and Enchantment: Classic French Fairy Tales, The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, The Fairy Tales of Frank Stockton, and Arabian Nights.
 
Sam Pickering teaches English at the University of Connecticut. He has written more than two dozen books, including Waltzing the Magpies, an account of a year he and his family spent in Western Australia, and Dreamtime.

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• Verlag: Signet
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0451529537
• ISBN 13: 9780451529534
• Einband: Libro de bolsillo
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Zipes Jack