Fables Aesop; Translated by Roger L'Estrange; Illustrated by Stephen Gooden - Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series

Aesop (author), Stephen Gooden (illustrator), Roger L'Estrange (translator)

Hardback (03 Nov 1992)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Aesop is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C., a slave on the Greek island of Samos. The eternally entertaining tales attributed to him-in which the fates of sly foxes, wicked wolves, industrious ants, and others, suggest what our own behaviors should (or should not) be-have been universal "best-sellers" since before L'Estrange's definitive 1692 English translation. Gooden's superb engravings were first published in 1936 in a limited edition.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780679417903
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:	Everyman's Library
Pub date:	03 Nov 1992
Language:	English
Number of pages:	336
Weight:	567g
Height:	216mm
Width:	165mm
Spine width:	26mm