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This enchanting edition of Aesop’s morality tales features illustrations by Arthur Rackham. His thirteen full-colour and fifty-three black-and-white images lend a perfect blend of humour and romanticism to the timeless fables.
An illuminating Introduction by G. K. Chesterton complements V. S. Vernon Jones’s sprightly, concise, and idiomatic translation.
Reprint of the Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1917 edition.
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Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece in approximately sixth century B.C. His thought-provoking stories, which feature animals and teach moral lessons, have entertained generations of readers.
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