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'The fable of the girl and her milk pail' by Kate Greenaway, 1893. The Milkmaid and Her Pail is a folktale of Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 1430 about interrupted daydreams of wealth and fame. [1] Ancient tales of this type exist in the East but Western variants are not found before the Middle Ages.
The subject of each of the Fables is often common property of many ages and races. What gives La Fontaine's Fables their rare distinction is the freshness in narration, the deftness of touch, the unconstrained suppleness of metrical structure, the unfailing humor of the pointed moral, the consummate art of their apparent artlessness. Keen ...
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.
Fables of La Fontaine (TV series) The Farmer and his Sons; The Farmer and the Viper; The Fisherman and his Flute; The Fisherman and the Little Fish; The Fly and the Ant; The Fox and the Cat (fable) The Fox and the Crow (Aesop) The Fox and the Grapes; The Fox and the Mask; The Fox and the Sick Lion; The Fox and the Stork; The Fox and the Weasel
The moral drawn in Mediaeval Latin retellings of the fable such as those of Adémar de Chabannes and Romulus Anglicus [7] was that one should learn from the misfortunes of others, but it was also given a political slant by the additional comment that "it is easier to enter the house of a great lord than to get out of it", as William Caxton expressed it in his English version. [8]
"The Princess and the Tin Box" is a short story by James Thurber in the form of a modern fable. [1] It was first published in the September 29, 1945 edition of The New Yorker magazine and republished in 1948 in Thurber's The Beast in Me and Other Animals: A New Collection of Pieces and Drawings about Human Beings and Less Alarming Creatures. [2]