Aesop is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C., a slave on the Greek island of Samos. The wonderful tales attributed to him--in which the fates of sly foxes, wicked wolves, and others suggest what our own behaviors should (or should not) be--have been universal "best-sellers" since before L'Estrange's definitive 1692 English translation. Gooden's superb engravings were first published in 1936 in a limited edition.
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Aesop is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C., a slave on the Greek island of Samos. The wonderful tales attributed to him--in which the fates of sly foxes, wicked wolves, and others suggest what our own behaviors should (or should not) be--have been universal "best-sellers" since before L'Estrange's definitive 1692 English translation. Gooden's superb engravings were first published in 1936 in a limited edition.
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