1979-1998 Penguin Classics Editions of Aesop's Fables

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First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Three volumes. A collection of the fables attributed to Aesop, a Greek fabulist and storyteller noted for his tales characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters. Many of the tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. This set contains: Fables of Aesop, 1979. New edition, later printing. Illustrated by Brian Robb, an English painter, illustrator, and cartoonist. Translated by Stanley Alexander Handford, a British writer and translator. Aesop's Fables, 1996. First edition, first impression. Selected and adapted by Jack David Zipes is a literary scholar and author who is a professor emeritus in the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. Aesop: The Complete Fables, 1998. First edition, first impression. Translated by Olivia Temple, a British artist and writer, and Robert Temple, a British author of books exploring history, science, and culture.