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In Le loup et la cigogne (Fables III.9) he also describes the crane's action as a surgical service; but when it asks for the salary promised, it is scolded for ingratitude by the wolf. [4] Gotthold Ephraim Lessing takes the satire even further in alluding to the fable in his sequel, "The Sick Wolf". The predator is near death and, in confessing ...
Aesop and the Ferryman; The Ant and the Grasshopper; The Ape and the Fox; The Ass and his Masters; The Ass and the Pig; The Ass Carrying an Image; The Ass in the Lion's Skin
The contradictions between fables already mentioned and alternative versions of much the same fable, as in the case of The Woodcutter and the Trees, are best explained by the ascription to Aesop of all examples of the genre. Some are demonstrably of West Asian origin, others have analogues further to the East.
The history of this fable in antiquity and the Middle Ages is tracked in A.E. Wright's Hie lert uns der meister: Latin Commentary and the Germany Fable. [4] The story concerns a thirsty crow that comes upon a pitcher with water at the bottom, beyond the reach of its beak. After failing to push it over, the bird drops in pebbles one by one until ...
Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several volumes from 1668 to 1694 and are considered classics of French literature. Humorous, nuanced and ironical, they were originally aimed at adults but ...
Benjamin Godard, the third of Six Fables de La Fontaine for voice and piano, op. 17 (1872/9) [15] Louis Lacombe in a setting dated 1888; Charles Lecocq in Six Fables de Jean de la Fontaine for voice and piano (1900), available on YouTube [16] André Caplet in Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine (1919) for voice and piano, in a forcefully ...
Articles relating to fables, succinct fictional stories, in prose or verse, that feature animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrate or lead to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim.
The same point of view underlies other fables of Aesop dealing with the tyrannical use of power, such as The Wolf and the Lamb, in which sophistry is rejected in the face of hunger. Still another of Aesop's fables, The fisherman and the little fish, draws much the same conclusion as later European variants of "The Hawk and the Nightingale". The ...