Aesop's Fables
560 BC · 87 pages
Talking animals carry the moral instruction the West grew up on: the tortoise outlasts the hare, the fox decides the grapes were sour. Aesop was a slave, and the lessons show it.
★ 7.1
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The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
1694 · 504 pages
La Fontaine rewrote Aesop's animals as a comedy of French manners: the ant turns the cicada away, the fox flatters the crow out of his cheese. French children still learn them by heart.
★ 6.0