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Aesop fables are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE.
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Classical in form, plot-driven, earnest and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Aesop
- First published
- 1897
- Pages
- 146
- Publisher
- Books On Tape, Element Books Ltd, John Murray
- Editions
- 91
- Language
- mul, grc, English
- ISBN
- 9785557127967
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First sentence
“A fox slipped in climbing a fence.”
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