Aesop's Fables (Fall River Press Edition)

For more than two thousand years, the fables of the Greek slave known as Aesop have entertained readers with their wise reflections on human nature and their insightful "morals," which have become some of the wittiest aphorisms in all literature. What reader is not familiar with the phrases "Might makes right," "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," "Beauty is skin deep," "Slow and steady wins the race," or "Look before you leap"?

Many of these charming fables are literary classics t...