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Aesop's Fables - Translated by George Fyler Townsend
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Aesop's Fables is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic mediums.
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Aesop was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.
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Reviews for Aesop's Fables - Translated by George Fyler Townsend
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I read this book over the course of maybe a year reading generally one fable a day. Like a lesson of the day. Some were great, some kind of goofy but I found overall the many lessons imparted as valid as most religious doctrine.Aesop himself is somewhat of a mysterious person of Greece much like Homer with only conjecture of who he was and how he put together this book of wisdom using the animated figures to deliver the message. In any event I found it intriguing to read them all and experience the lessons of such an ancient time that can have such relevance today.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The preface of the volume by Townsend is interesting & informative. The fables themselves are wonderful. The animals chosen to convey the lesson are perfectly selected. This is a timeless classic. I enjoy the fables more every time I read them.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dad used to read these to us when we were children.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Aesop’s Fables by George Tyler is an excellent book written well just not something that I would normally read. Could find no fault just not something for me would be excellent for others though.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Read this for the "1001" books and they're good little stories with great moral messages, but I found it hard to read them straight thru as a whole book. A few of the stories I even got a bit confused on because I kept mixing them up with others that were similar. I thought a few times "didn't I just read this this one?" But it was a good read and a keeper, and at least I finished it!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Various fables by Aesop are presented in a collection.The book would be useful in discussing morals and fables with kids.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5At school, there was a story that stuck in my head from being told at an assembly when I was young. I have no idea why this one in particular stayed with me, but I always wondered where it came from. Now I know - it was one of Aesop's fables.This is a real treasure trove for anyone wanting short stories to tell to youngsters to encourage them to prize their friends, the good things they have in their life and the virtue of patience. There are other stories which have more to do with accepting your lot in life and not striving above it which I feel belong more to a time long gone by but even these can, when balanced with other moral messages, encourage a stoic attitude to life. I would recommend it to any primary school teacher or parent, particularly those who don't wish to rely on religious parables when storytelling with the aim to teach lessons to the young.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I like Aesop's fables because of the simple stories that relate back to a moral. I don’t like some of the stories' because of the cruelness of some of them. These stories have been retold many times but still possess the same stories with the morals being connected.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Every few years I enjoy rereading Aesop’s Fables. When I come across a different edition with wonderful, new-to-me illustrations, I just can’t help myself. The morals of the Fables are occasionally contradictory, that’s where they’re most interesting in fact. For example, some tales seem to indicate that opposites attract and can help one another; in other instances alike things are attracted to one another and those things that are different are dangerous and can cause them harm; still, one has to fight the urge, because they are so amusing, to agree with all of Aesop’s “lessons” on all points. The best thing you can get from it as a child is that the world can be a contradictory place and that the best thing to do is ask questions about the truth of any given assertion or act. Aesop, if he did exist, seems like he could probably move from being a skeptic to being paranoid pretty easily. It’s good to read the tales with a dose of good humor.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not sure if it was just the copy that I had but it seems that so many of the stories were the same or very similiar and there were also some that seemed to tell the same story but with different outcomes. I know that historians are pretty sure that other authors have added their own work to be included with Aesop's fables, and that made the repetitive stories a little easier to read. Individually though, most of the fables had a good lesson attached to it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tortoise and the Hare, the Grasshopper and the Ant, and dozens more of the delightful creatures that have been entertaining and instructing people for thousands of years. The storyteller Aesop lived in Ancient Greece, far away from us in time and distance. But his clever little stories have as much meaning for us today as they did when he first told them so long ago...
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Who does not like Aesop's Fables? Come on.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quick and short are the ancient greek moralistic tales. This is a beautifully illustrated collection of a few of them. I read "The Wolf and The Crane". The story of a greedy wolf who overeats and starts choking on a bone. He then begs the animals to help him saying he'll do anything for it. A crane does, sticking her long beak down and drawing out the bone. She then asks for her reward and he states that she should be grateful for him not biting her head off when she stuck it down his throat. The moral: he who live on expectations are sure to be disappointed.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The translated or retold stories are straight-forward, but the editor often chose to use English proverbs as his "Applications", some of which were not particularly applicable; it seems redundant to use an idiomatic phrase to explain a fable.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bill Myers is a good Christian Supernatural author. This book is good but I don't recommend it to everyone. In this book he made references to things that I could see why he'd write it in but I didn't necessarily agree with it. In my opinion it was a conservative view. So for those of you who are not conservative I don't recommend this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A moral education, and Chesterton's perceptive remarks about fable as truism and fairytale as realism aside, also something of a sentimental one. It's like, if we worshipped Aesop, does anyone think the Bible would have caught on as instructive stories for children and maybe adults, as opposed to the bloodthirsty fever dreams of a Middle Eastern death cult?Plus some of them are just dumb jokes, and a surprising percentage of those are funny.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I read this book while taking a course on animal satire with a focus on the Aesopic tradition. The fables are very entertaining and make for good conversation with friends. The translator, Laura Gibbs, has posted many of the fables on her website. However, the book is organized by situations, and there is nothing more satisfying than quoting one of Aesop's fables to remedy a particular situation.
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