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Rosemary Wells, reviewing Aesop's Fables wrote "Pinkney's Aesop is a visual treat. These are beautiful illustrations, combining pencil, colored pencil and watercolor with a light-as-air touch. .. The book is handsomely designed, in a large format, and fine paper sets off the illustrations to their best advantage." [1]
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Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of varied and unclear origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers ...
Fables of Aesop as first printed by William Caxton in 1484 with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio, David Nutt, 1889 (Vol. 1, Vol. 2) English Fairy Tales, 1890 † Celtic Fairy Tales, 1891 [a] † Indian Fairy Tales, 1892 † More English Fairy Tales, 1893 [a] † More Celtic Fairy Tales, 1894 [a] † Fables of Aesop, 1894, illustrated by ...
Three hundred Aesop's fables Frontispiece illustration of The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. George Fyler Townsend (1814–1900) was the British translator of the standard English edition of Aesop's Fables. He was the son of George Townsend and was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge-DCL 1876. He was Vicar of Barntingham ...
Thomas Nast's cartoon "Third Term Panic" "The Ass in the Lion's Skin" was one of the several Aesop's fables put to use by American political cartoonist Thomas Nast, when it was rumoured in 1874 that Republican president Ulysses S. Grant intended to stand for election for an unprecedented third term in 1876.
The family welcomes the frozen snake, a woodcut by Ernest Griset. The Farmer and the Viper is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 176 in the Perry Index. [1] It has the moral that kindness to evil will be met by betrayal and is the source of the idiom "to nourish a viper in one's bosom".