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  2. The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble - Wikipedia

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    "The Rabbits who caused all the Trouble" is a short modern fable written by James Thurber. It first appeared in The New Yorker on August 26, 1939; and was first collected in his book Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated (Harper and Brothers, 1940 ).

  3. Animal tale - Wikipedia

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    "The Wolf accusing the Fox before the Monkey" from La Fontaine's collection Fables. An animal tale or beast fable generally consists of a short story or poem in which animals talk. They may exhibit other anthropomorphic qualities as well, such as living in a human-like society. It is a traditional form of allegorical writing. [1]

  4. The Dog and the Wolf - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of the fable by J.M.Condé, 1905. The Dog and the Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 346 in the Perry Index. [1] It has been popular since antiquity as an object lesson of how freedom should not be exchanged for comfort or financial gain. An alternative fable with the same moral concerning different animals is less well known.

  5. Category:Animal tales - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... move to sidebar hide. Help. See also: Category:Fables and Category:Novels about animals Subcategories. This ...

  6. Category:Fairy tales about talking animals - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Fairy tales about talking animals" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 320 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  7. Fable - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Category:Fables - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Talking animals in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The use of talking animals enables storytellers to combine the basic characteristics of the animal with human behavior, to apply metaphor, and to entertain children as well as adults. [1] Animals are used in a variety of ways in fictional works including to illustrate morality lessons for children, to instill wonder in young readers, [1] and as ...