Showing posts with label Aesopic Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aesopic Books. Show all posts

Myth-Folklore Book: The Fables of La Fontaine

This book is part of the La Fontaine unit.

The Fables of La Fontaine translated by Elizur Wright (1882).

Available FREE texts:
Project Gutenberg
Internet Archive
Google Books
Hathi Books
Kindle eBook
Gold Scales

You can also find La Fontaine's French poems easily accessible at the French Wikipedia (Wikisource) website, with a listing of the fables by book or by title.




Myth-Folklore Book: The Fables of Babrius

The Fables of Babrius
translated by Rev. James Davies
1860

The book is available online at Google Books.

Myth-Folklore Book: Fables and Satires (Boothby)

Fables and Satires
by Sir Brooke Boothby
1809

The book is available in two volumes at Google Books: Volume 1 and Volume 2.






Myth-Folklore Book: Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists

Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists 
by Roger L'Estrange.
1692.

The book is available at Google Books. The image below is from the 1692 edition at Google Books; the motto — Nos non nobis — is an abbreviated form of the motto Nos non nobis nascimur, "We are not born for ourselves" (but for others).





Myth-Folklore Book: The Fables of Phaedrus

The Comedies of Terence and the Fables of Phaedrus
translated by Henry Thomas Riley,
to which is added
a Metrical Translation of Phaedrus
by Christopher Smart.
1887.

This book is available online at Project Gutenberg. Christopher Smart was an 18th-century English poet who translated both Horace and Phaedrus into English; you can read more about Smart at Wikipedia.

Myth-Folklore Book: Fables of Aesop (Jacobs)

This book is part of the Aesop's Fables (Jacobs) unit.

The Fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by Richard Heighway (1894).

Available FREE texts:
Internet Archive
Google Books
Hathi Books





Myth-Folklore Book: Aesop for Children

This book is part of the Aesop for Children (Winter) unit.

The Aesop for Children, with illustrations by Milo Winter (1919).

Available FREE texts:
Project Gutenberg
Internet Archive
Google Books
Hathi Books
Kindle eBook

Available FREE audio:
LibriVox
Internet Archive

I have been unable to learn who wrote the text for this edition of Aesop's fables; the book gives the name of the illustration (Milo Winter), but not of the writer!



Myth-Folklore Book: Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks

This book is part of the La Fontaine unit.

Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks by W. T. Larned (adapted from La Fontaine), illustrated by John Rae, 1918.

Available FREE texts:
Project Gutenberg
Internet Archive
Kindle eBook

Available FREE audio:
LibriVox
Internet Archive

Other online sources:
YouTube videobook