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When the Fables depart for Haven, Mrs. Sprat stays behind, unbeknownst to everyone else. When Mister Dark shows up at the Farm looking for the other Fables, she offers to reveal their location for three things: to become beautiful, for all the other beautiful Fables to become ugly like her, and for a prince to love her with "true love".
Three Fables of Love (French: Les Quatre Vérités, Italian: Le quattro verità, Spanish: Las cuatro verdades) is a 1962 internationally co-produced comedy film starring Leslie Caron, Anna Karina and Monica Vitti. [1] It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. [2]
When the fable figured in 16th century emblem books, more emphasis was put on the moral lesson to be learned, to which the story acted as a mere appendage.Thus Hadrianus Junius tells the fable in a four-line Latin poem and follows it with a lengthy commentary, part of which reads: "By contrast we see the reed obstinately holding out against the power of cloudy storms, and overcoming the onrush ...
Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE. Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or ...
Aesop (/ ˈ iː s ɒ p / EE-sop or / ˈ eɪ s ɒ p / AY-sop; Ancient Greek: Αἴσωπος, Aísōpos; c. 620–564 BCE; formerly rendered as Æsop) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.
As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern Europe.They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a chivalric knight-errant portrayed as having heroic qualities, who goes on a quest.
The Lion in Love; The Lion's Share; The Lion, the Bear and the Fox; The Lion, the Boar and the Vultures; The Man and the Lion; The Man with two Mistresses; The Mischievous Dog; The Miser and his Gold; Momus criticizes the creations of the gods; The Moon and her Mother; The Mountain in Labour; The Mouse and the Oyster; The North Wind and the Sun ...
The story was among those included in La Fontaine's Fables (I.10) [19] and was set to music by several French composers, including Louis-Nicolas Clérambault at the start of the 18th century. [20] Alfred Yung (1836–1913), a setting for two equal voices (1862) [21] Louis Lacombe, among his Fables de La Fontaine (Op. 72 1875)