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The Fables are alphabetically arranged disregarding "The". The Images ![]() ![]() There are about 100 Fables in each of the first 4 sections. Note: I have added a flash mp3 player to all audio enabled fables. | |
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Section 1 ![]() ![]() | Androcles -> The Eagle and the Arrow |
Section 2 ![]() ![]() | The Eagle and the Jackdaw -> Jupiter Neptune Minerva and Momus |
Section 3 ![]() ![]() | The Kid and the Wolf -> The Rich Man and the Tanner |
Section 4 ![]() ![]() | The Rose and the Amaranth -> The Young Thief and His Mother |
Section 5 | Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce - 245 Fables |
Section 6 ![]() | Fables of Jean De La Fontaine - More in process of being translated |
Selected Fables ![]() ![]() | 86 Fables selected for their ease of reading and concise moral understanding |
Fairy Tales | Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen - 127 of them |
Timeline | Graphic Timeline of 1000 BC - 500 BC |
Timeline All | Java Panorama Graphic Timeline of 1000 BC - 1000 AD |
A Kidnapped Santa Claus | A Short story by L. Frank Baum |
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus | A medium length story by L. Frank Baum |
A Christmas Carol | The story of Scrooge by Charles Dickens |
Tallys: | Fables - 640 | Fontaine Fables - 21 |
Images - 134 | Real Audio - 36 | Stories - 3 |
Fairy Tales - 127 | . | . |
The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox A LION, growing old, lay sick in his cave. All the beasts came to visit their king, except the Fox. The Wolf therefore, thinking that he had a capital opportunity, accused the Fox to the Lion of not paying any respect to him who had the rule over them all and of not coming to visit him. At that very moment the Fox came in and heard these last words of the Wolf. The Lion roaring out in a rage against him, the Fox sought an opportunity to defend himself and said, "And who of all those who have come to you have benefited you so much as I, who have traveled from place to place in every direction, and have sought and learnt from the physicians the means of healing you?' The Lion commanded him immediately to tell him the cure, when he replied, "You must flay a wolf alive and wrap his skin yet warm around you." The Wolf was at once taken and flayed; whereon the Fox, turning to him, said with a smile, "You should have moved your master not to ill, but to good, will." |
For more information about the fables and this site click Here.
For information on what a fable is and what makes it different from a tale or parable see
Selected Preface in Section 1. Be sure to see the full preface and the 'Life of Aesop' in
section 1. See also Aesop at Wikipedia,
Fable at Wikipedia.
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Your Narrator![]() Heather |
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Site Creation by![]() John R. Long |