A little fable / Franz Kafka -- The sea-bird / Chuang Tzu -- The snake and the shepherd / Greece -- The hawk and the nightingale / Hesiod -- The Panchatantra. Poor Blossom -- The obedient dog / Ignacy Krasicki -- A fox and a dragon / Roger L'Estrange -- Keeper of the royal Hat / Han Fei Tzu -- Randolf's party / John Lennon -- The nut and the campanile / Leonardo Da Vinci -- Sick Kite and her mother / Roger L'Estrange -- Zeus and the horse / Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- The story of the hungry elephant / Bulu -- The rose / Johann Gottfried von Herder -- The lion and the mouse / Babrius -- Cock in his litter / Aesop -- Fable of the man and of the lyon / William Caxton -- The acorn and the pumpkin / La Fontaine -- Chuang Chou hunting / Chuang Tzu -- The Kojiki. The mouse's hole -- Marten and the file / Aesop -- Nero's respite / C.P. Cavafy -- The two matches / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Drowning mouse / Babrius -- The frog jealous of the ox / La Fontaine -- The monkey and the spectacles / Ivan Krylov -- Crow's fall / Ted Huges -- The snail and the mirror / Aesop -- How the hair of woman is long, the understanding short, and what a ghastly lack of appreciation there is in them for genius / William Saroyan -- Fable of the mermaid and the drunks / Pablo Neruda -- Coyote goes fishing / Yurok -- The narrow spoonful / Julio Cortázar -- Hares and lions / Aesop -- The wasps / G.E. Lessing -- The companions of Ulysses / La Fonatine -- Fish soup / Ivan Krylov -- A counsel of birds for chusing more kings / Roger L'Estrange -- A fox and a hedge-hog / Roger L'Estrange -- The ostrich / G.E. Lessing -- Privilege / Ivan Khemmitser -- The frogs asked for a king / Phaedrus -- The squirrel / Ivan Krylov -- The rat recluse / La Fontaine -- Sword-fish and whale / Edmund Spenser -- Elephant and the ant / Edmund spenser -- Story of the old wolf / G.E. Lessing -- The fox and the crow / James Thurber -- Dog and his shadow / Babrius -- Chüang Shu-liang in the moonlight / Hsün Tzu -- A country mouse and a town mouse / Horace -- Field mowse and towny mowse / Thomas Wyatt -- The hedgehog and the hare / Leo Tolstoy -- Heron and humming-bird / Muskogee -- The crocodile in need of a surgeon / John Webster -- Patient forbearance / Babrius -- The dog and the dates / Sumer -- The fox and the grapes / Roger L'Estrange -- Fox and grapes / La Fontaine -- Fox and grapes / G.E. Lessing -- The fox and the grapes / Donald Gear -- The mookse and the gripes / James Joyce -- Wolf robbed / Babrius -- The wolf, the mother and the child / La Fontaine -- The fable of the wulf and of the lambe / William Caxton -- The cat and the nightingale / Ivan Krylov -- The wolf and the fox / La Fontaine -- Fox on the way to Mecca / T.E. Lawrence -- The raccoon and the crawfish / Mississagua -- The raccoon and the crawfish, II / Plains Ojibwa -- A fayr parable of the foxe and the wulf / William Caxton -- The Panchatantra. The donkey and the jackal -- Birds, beasts and bat / Leonard Jenkin -- The Panchatantra. Ape, glow-worm, and bird -- An ape judge betwixt a fox and a wolf / Roger L'Estrange -- Gnat and the bull / Babylonian ; Babrius -- How the pompous remark of the turtle spoiled the last moments of the lion who was shot by a hunter but was still proud and lonely / William Saroyan -- An eagle and a daw / Roger L'Estrange -- The ant and the caterpillar / Christopher Smart -- The grasshopper and the ant / La Fontaine -- Dancing out sand / American folk -- The lemming and the owl / Eskimo -- The tortoise and the hippo and the elephant / Bulu -- Man and the weasel / Babrius ; L'Estrange -- The man and the snake / La Fontaine -- The fox and the stork / Phaedrus -- The fox and the turkeys / La Fonatine -- The ass and the fox / G.E. Lessing -- At gourd-patch rise Old Lady Junco had her home and Coyote / Zuni -- The goat without a beard / John Gay -- The two dogs / Sumer -- Piscator's pleasantry / Babrius -- The Panchatantra. The frogs that rode snakeback -- The fable of the ape and of his two children / William Caxton -- The owl and the sun / Roger L'Estrange -- When Brer 'Possum attend Miss Fox's house-party / American folk -- Fish dance / Ivan Krylov -- The cock and the fox: or, the tale of the nun's priest, from Chaucer / John Dryden -- The fable of the belly and the members / William Shakespeare -- The lady and the bear / Theodore Roethke -- The plot against the giant / Wallace Stevens -- On angels / Donald Barthelme -- The fox and deer / American Indian -- Mother crab / Babrius -- The carthorses and the saddlehorse / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The feather-eared owl and the blind ass / Ivan Krylov -- Treachery / Leonardo Da Vinci -- The rat and the oyster / La Fontaine -- Prodigal / Aesop -- Fable of the man and of the god of the wodes / William Caxton -- The tiger and the persimmon / Korea -- The fox / Sumer -- The Panchatantra. The blue jackal -- Nightingale and bat / Aesop ; L'Estrange -- A lion and an asse / Roger L'Estrange -- Beans and husks / Kenkō -- The wounded pine tree / Babrius -- The Panchatantra. The mice that ate iron -- The bottle-bird and the monkey / India -- A camel at first sight / Roger L'Estrange -- The foxes/ Eskimo -- The two monkeys / John Gay -- The astonishing pigeon / Leonard Jenkin -- A salmon and a dog-fish / John Webster -- Coyote and his wife/ Wintu -- A physician that cur'd mad-men / Roger L'Estrange -- The dolls / William Butler Yeats -- The rich man of Sung / Han Fei Tzu -- Mountain in labor / La Fontaine -- The clod and the pebble / William Blake -- The glow-worm / James Boswell -- Skunk and his family / Sioux -- You are too kind / Babrius -- The fable of the wulf and of the dogge / William Caxton -- A very real story / Julio Cortázar -- A fable with a still moral / Marvin Cohen -- The black marten / Aesop -- Fox / Ainu -- All stories are Anansi's / Trinidad -- Fable of the wulf and of the hongry dogge / William Caxton -- The image / Edmund Spenser -- The owl and the two rabbits / Eskimo -- The dove and the fox / Marie de France -- The woman and the jug / Aristophanes -- Woodpecker and the toad / Andaman Islands -- The mole / Aesop -- The moon begs a new gown / Roger L'Estrange -- Snake and child / American -- A lamb, a wolf and a goat / Roger L'Estrange -- The very long tale of an ass and his driver / Leonard Jenkin -- The story of the crocodile / Vandau -- The cock and the fox / Marie de France -- The wolf on his deathbed / G.E. Lessing -- Story with no moral / Julio Cortázar.
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Over 150 fables selected from 5,000 years of literature.