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April 10, 2024

For other uses, see Fable (disambiguation).

Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse,[1] that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying.

Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE

A fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals,[2] plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech or other powers of humankind.[3][4] Conversely, an animal tale specifically includes talking animals as characters.[5][6]

Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished. In the King James Version of the New Testament, "μῦθος" ("mythos") was rendered by the translators as "fable"[7] in the First Epistle to Timothy, the Second Epistle to Timothy, the Epistle to Titus and the First Epistle of Peter.[8]

A person who writes fables is referred to as a fabulist.[9][10]

History edit

The fable is one of the most enduring forms of folk literature, spread abroad, modern researchers agree,[11] less by literary anthologies than by oral transmission. Fables can be found in the literature of almost every country.[12][13]

Aesopic or Aesop's fable edit

The varying corpus denoted Aesopica or Aesop's Fables includes most of the best-known western fables, which are attributed to the legendary Aesop, supposed to have been a slave in ancient Greece around 550 BCE. When Babrius set down fables from the Aesopica in verse for a Hellenistic Prince "Alexander", he expressly stated at the head of Book II that this type of "myth" that Aesop had introduced to the "sons of the Hellenes" had been an invention of "Syrians" from the time of "Ninos" (personifying Nineveh to Greeks) and Belos ("ruler").[14] Epicharmus of Kos and Phormis are reported as having been among the first to invent comic fables.[15] Many familiar fables of Aesop include "The Crow and the Pitcher", "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "The Lion and the Mouse". In ancient Greek and Roman education, the fable was the first of the progymnasmata—training exercises in prose composition and public speaking—wherein students would be asked to learn fables, expand upon them, invent their own, and finally use them as persuasive examples in longer forensic or deliberative speeches. The need of instructors to teach, and students to learn, a wide range of fables as material for their declamations resulted in their being gathered together in collections, like those of Aesop.

Africa edit

African oral culture[16] has a rich story-telling tradition. As they have for thousands of years, people of all ages in Africa continue to interact with nature, including plants, animals and earthly structures such as rivers, plains, and mountains. Children and, to some extent, adults are mesmerized by good story-tellers when they become animated in their quest to tell a good fable.

The Anansi oral story originates from the tribes of Ghana. "All Stories Are Anansi's" was translated by Harold Courlander and Albert Kofi Prempeh and tells the story of a god-like creature Anansi who wishes to own all stories in the world.[17] The character Anansi is often depicted as a spider and is known for its cunning nature to obtain what it wants, typically seen outwitting other animal characters.[17]

Joel Chandler Harris wrote African-American fables in the Southern context of slavery under the name of Uncle Remus.[18] His stories of the animal characters Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and Brer Bear are modern examples of African-American story-telling, this though should not transcend critiques and controversies as to whether or not Uncle Remus was a racist or apologist for slavery. The Disney movie Song of the South introduced many of the stories to the public and others not familiar with the role that storytelling played in the life of cultures and groups without training in speaking, reading, writing, or the cultures to which they had been relocated to from world practices of capturing Africans and other indigenous populations to provide slave labor to colonized countries.

India edit

India has a rich tradition of fables, many derived from traditional stories and related to local natural elements. Indian fables often teach a particular moral.[19] In some stories the gods have animal aspects, while in others the characters are archetypal talking animals similar to those found in other cultures. Hundreds of fables were composed in ancient India during the first millennium BCE, often as stories within frame stories. Indian fables have a mixed cast of humans and animals. The dialogues are often longer than in fables of Aesop and often comical as the animals try to outwit one another by trickery and deceit. In Indian fables, humanity is not presented as superior to the animals. Prime examples of the fable in India are the Panchatantra and the Jataka tales. These included Vishnu Sarma's Panchatantra, the Hitopadesha, Vikram and The Vampire, and Syntipas' Seven Wise Masters, which were collections of fables that were later influential throughout the Old World. Ben E. Perry (compiler of the "Perry Index" of Aesop's fables) has argued controversially that some of the Buddhist Jataka tales and some of the fables in the Panchatantra may have been influenced by similar Greek and Near Eastern ones.[20] Earlier Indian epics such as Vyasa's Mahabharata and Valmiki's Ramayana also contained fables within the main story, often as side stories or back-story. The most famous folk stories from the Near East were the One Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights.

The Panchatantra is an ancient Indian assortment of fables. The earliest recorded work, ascribed to Vishnu Sharma, dates to around 300 BCE. The tales are likely much older than the compilation, having been passed down orally prior to the book's compilation. The word "Panchatantra" is a blend of the words "pancha" (which means "five" in Sanskrit) and "tantra" (which means "weave"). It implies weaving together multiple threads of narrative and moral lessons together to form a book.

Europe edit

 
Printed image of the fable of the blacksmith and the dog from the sixteenth century[21]

Fables had a further long tradition through the Middle Ages and became part of European high literature. During the 17th century, the French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) saw the soul of the fable in the moral—a rule of behavior. Starting with the Aesopian pattern, La Fontaine set out to satirize the court, the church, the rising bourgeoisie, indeed the entire human scene of his time.[22] La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay (1685–1732);[23] Poland's Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801);[24] Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti (1739–1812)[25][verification needed] and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi (1754–1827);[26][verification needed] Serbia's Dositej Obradović (1745–1801)[27] and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa (1750–1791);[28][verification needed] France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794);[29] and Russia's Ivan Krylov (1769–1844).[30]

Modern era edit

In modern times, while the fable has been trivialized in children's books, it has also been fully adapted to modern adult literature. Felix Salten's Bambi (1923) is a Bildungsroman—a story of a protagonist's coming-of-age—cast in the form of a fable. James Thurber used the ancient fable style in his books Fables for Our Time (1940) and Further Fables for Our Time (1956), and in his stories "The Princess and the Tin Box" in The Beast in Me and Other Animals (1948) and "The Last Clock: A Fable for the Time, Such As It Is, of Man" in Lanterns and Lances (1961). Władysław Reymont's The Revolt (1922), a metaphor for the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, described a revolt by animals that take over their farm in order to introduce "equality". George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) similarly satirized Stalinist Communism in particular, and totalitarianism in general, in the guise of animal fable.

In the 21st century, the Neapolitan writer Sabatino Scia is the author of more than two hundred fables that he describes as "western protest fables". The characters are not only animals, but also things, beings, and elements from nature. Scia's aim is the same as in the traditional fable, playing the role of revealer of human society. In Latin America, the brothers Juan and Victor Ataucuri Garcia have contributed to the resurgence of the fable. But they do so with a novel idea: use the fable as a means of dissemination of traditional literature of that place. In the book "Fábulas Peruanas" , published in 2003,[31] they have collected myths, legends, and beliefs of Andean and Amazonian Peru, to write as fables. The result has been an extraordinary work rich in regional nuances.[32]

Fabulists edit

Classic edit

Modern edit

Notable fable collections edit

See also edit

See also: Category:Fabulists

Notes edit

  1. ^ Stevenson, Robert (2017-10-02). Fables. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1-9778-5352-3.
  2. ^ Khanna, Neerja Deswal & Pooja. English Language Through Literature (For University of Delhi). Vikas Publishing House. p. 58. ISBN 978-93-5453-204-7.
  3. ^ YAO, DAVID. Decoding Greek and Latin roots in English (Part 2/4) 探源英语词根，轻松扩大英语词汇: Expand English Vocabulary in Unique Smart Way! Version 2022. Legoo Mandarin. p. 17.
  4. ^ Rakhmi, Annisa (2012-01-01). Lets Narrate A Text!. PT Balai Pustaka (Persero). p. 56.
  5. ^ Atherton, Mark (2012-08-20). There and Back Again: J R R Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-85772-166-2.
  6. ^ Vigil, Angel (2000-06-15). The Eagle on the Cactus: Traditional Stories from Mexico. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. pp. XLVI. ISBN 978-0-313-06991-8.
  7. ^ For example, in First Timothy, "neither give heed to fables...", and "refuse profane and old wives' fables..." (1 Tim 1:4 and 4:4, respectively).
  8. ^ Strong's 3454. μύθος muthos moo’-thos; perhaps from the same as 3453 (through the idea of tuition); a tale, i.e. fiction ("myth"):—fable.
    "For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty." (2nd Peter 1:16)
  9. ^ Danner, Horace Gerald (2014-03-27). A Thesaurus of English Word Roots. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 270. ISBN 978-1-4422-3326-3.
  10. ^ Rothstein, Andrew; Rothstein, Evelyn; Lauber, Gerald (2006-12-13). Writing as Learning: A Content-Based Approach. Corwin Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-4522-3966-8.
  11. ^ Enzyklopädie des Märchens (1977), see "Fabel", "Äsopica" etc.
  12. ^ Sargsyan, Armen (2019-03-06). Armenian Folk Fables. Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US. ISBN 978-1-7989-0520-3.
  13. ^ "Tribhuvan University Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-03-21.
  14. ^ Burkert 1992:121
  15. ^ P. W. Buckham, p. 245
  16. ^ Atim Oton (October 25, 2011). "Reaching African Children Through Fables and Animation". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
  17. ^ a b The Norton Anthology World Literature (4th ed.). 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. 2018. pp. 902–905. ISBN 978-0-393-60285-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  18. ^ Harris, Joel Chandler (2015-06-12). Uncle Remus. Xist Publishing. ISBN 978-1-68195-042-6.
  19. ^ Ohale, Nagnath (2020-05-25). . In Indian Culture. Archived from the original on 2020-07-31. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
  20. ^ Ben E. Perry, "Introduction", p. xix, in Babrius and Phaedrus (1965)
  21. ^ "Fabel van de smid en de hond". lib.ugent.be. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  22. ^ Translations of his 12 books of fables are available online at oaks.nvg.org
  23. ^ His two collections of 1727 and 1738 are available in one volume on Google Books at books.google.co.uk
  24. ^ His Bajki i przypowieści (Fables and Parables, 1779) are available online at ug.edu.pl
  25. ^ His Favole e Novelle (1785) is available on. da'torchi di R.di Napoli. 1830. Retrieved May 8, 2012 – via Internet Archive. pignotti favola.
  26. ^ Rossi, Giovanni Gherardo De (1790). His Favole (1788) is available on Google Books. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
  27. ^ 9 books of fables are available online in Spanish at amediavoz.com
  28. ^ His Fabulas Literarias are available on. 1816. Retrieved May 8, 2012 – via Internet Archive. Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa fabulas.
  29. ^ His five books of fables are available online in French at shanaweb.net 2010-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
  30. ^ 5 books of fables are available online in English at friends-partners.org 2011-02-21 at the Wayback Machine
  31. ^ García, Juan Miguel Ataucuri (2002). Fábulas peruanas (in Spanish). Gaviota Azul Editores.
  32. ^ Juan y Víctor Ataucuri García, "Fábulas Peruanas", Gaviota Azul Editores, Lima, 2003 ISBN 9972-2561-0-3.
  33. ^ Kermode, Mark (30 July 2013). "The Devil's Backbone: The Past Is Never Dead . . ". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 25 June 2016. For those with a weakness for the beautiful monsters of modern cinema, del Toro has earned himself a reputation as the finest living exponent of fabulist film.
  34. ^ Aesop (1994). Aesop's Fables. Wordsworth Editions. ISBN 978-1-85326-128-2.
  35. ^ Francis, Henry Thomas; Thomas, Edward Joseph (1916). Jataka Tales. Cambridge University Press.
  36. ^ Sharma, Vishnu (2021-08-01). Panchatantra. Prakash Books. ISBN 978-93-5440-376-7.
  37. ^ Burton, Richard F. (2023-07-16). Vikram and the Vampire. BoD - Books on Demand. ISBN 979-10-418-0758-1.
  38. ^ Orbeliani, Sulxan-Saba (1982). A Book of Wisdom and Lies. Octagon Press. ISBN 978-0-900860-97-3.
  39. ^ Marzolph, Ulrich (2007). "Arabian Nights". In Kate Fleet; Gudrun Krämer; Denis Matringe; John Nawas; Everett Rowson (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_0021. Arabian Nights, the work known in Arabic as Alf layla wa-layla
  40. ^ The Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian Nights Entertainments. J.C. Nimmo and Bain. 1883.
  41. ^ Andersen, Hans Christian (2015-09-28). Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories: Fairy Tales, Folktales Collections. 谷月社.
  42. ^ Harris, Joel Chandler (1881). Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings; the Folk-lore of the Old Plantation. D. Appleton.
  43. ^ Bierce, Ambrose (1898). Fantastic Fables. G. P. Putnam's sons. ISBN 978-1-4429-9139-2.

References edit

 
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Fable".
 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fables.
  • Buckham, Philip Wentworth (1827). Theatre of the Greeks. J. Smith. The Theatre of the Greeks.
  • King James Bible; New Testament (authorised).
  • DLR [David Lee Rubin]. "Fable in Verse", The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.
  • Read fables by Aesop and La Fontaine

Further reading edit

  • Gish Jen (3 Jan 2011). "Three Modern Fables to Capture Your Imagination" (Audio with transcript). NPR : All Things Considered.
  • Tobias Carroll (29 Sep 2017). "The Challenge of Modern Fables: Ben Loory's Erudite Surrealism". Tor.com.
  • Robert Spencer Knotts. "Modern Fables". The Humanity Project.

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For other uses see Fable disambiguation Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story in prose or verse 1 that features animals legendary creatures plants inanimate objects or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson a moral which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese Egypt c 1120 BCEA fable differs from a parable in that the latter excludes animals 2 plants inanimate objects and forces of nature as actors that assume speech or other powers of humankind 3 4 Conversely an animal tale specifically includes talking animals as characters 5 6 Usage has not always been so clearly distinguished In the King James Version of the New Testament mῦ8os mythos was rendered by the translators as fable 7 in the First Epistle to Timothy the Second Epistle to Timothy the Epistle to Titus and the First Epistle of Peter 8 A person who writes fables is referred to as a fabulist 9 10 Contents 1 History 1 1 Aesopic or Aesop s fable 1 2 Africa 1 3 India 1 4 Europe 1 5 Modern era 2 Fabulists 3 Classic 4 Modern 5 Notable fable collections 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 Further readingHistory editThe fable is one of the most enduring forms of folk literature spread abroad modern researchers agree 11 less by literary anthologies than by oral transmission Fables can be found in the literature of almost every country 12 13 Aesopic or Aesop s fable edit The varying corpus denoted Aesopica or Aesop s Fables includes most of the best known western fables which are attributed to the legendary Aesop supposed to have been a slave in ancient Greece around 550 BCE When Babrius set down fables from the Aesopica in verse for a Hellenistic Prince Alexander he expressly stated at the head of Book II that this type of myth that Aesop had introduced to the sons of the Hellenes had been an invention of Syrians from the time of Ninos personifying Nineveh to Greeks and Belos ruler 14 Epicharmus of Kos and Phormis are reported as having been among the first to invent comic fables 15 Many familiar fables of Aesop include The Crow and the Pitcher The Tortoise and the Hare and The Lion and the Mouse In ancient Greek and Roman education the fable was the first of the progymnasmata training exercises in prose composition and public speaking wherein students would be asked to learn fables expand upon them invent their own and finally use them as persuasive examples in longer forensic or deliberative speeches The need of instructors to teach and students to learn a wide range of fables as material for their declamations resulted in their being gathered together in collections like those of Aesop Africa edit African oral culture 16 has a rich story telling tradition As they have for thousands of years people of all ages in Africa continue to interact with nature including plants animals and earthly structures such as rivers plains and mountains Children and to some extent adults are mesmerized by good story tellers when they become animated in their quest to tell a good fable The Anansi oral story originates from the tribes of Ghana All Stories Are Anansi s was translated by Harold Courlander and Albert Kofi Prempeh and tells the story of a god like creature Anansi who wishes to own all stories in the world 17 The character Anansi is often depicted as a spider and is known for its cunning nature to obtain what it wants typically seen outwitting other animal characters 17 Joel Chandler Harris wrote African American fables in the Southern context of slavery under the name of Uncle Remus 18 His stories of the animal characters Brer Rabbit Brer Fox and Brer Bear are modern examples of African American story telling this though should not transcend critiques and controversies as to whether or not Uncle Remus was a racist or apologist for slavery The Disney movie Song of the South introduced many of the stories to the public and others not familiar with the role that storytelling played in the life of cultures and groups without training in speaking reading writing or the cultures to which they had been relocated to from world practices of capturing Africans and other indigenous populations to provide slave labor to colonized countries India edit India has a rich tradition of fables many derived from traditional stories and related to local natural elements Indian fables often teach a particular moral 19 In some stories the gods have animal aspects while in others the characters are archetypal talking animals similar to those found in other cultures Hundreds of fables were composed in ancient India during the first millennium BCE often as stories within frame stories Indian fables have a mixed cast of humans and animals The dialogues are often longer than in fables of Aesop and often comical as the animals try to outwit one another by trickery and deceit In Indian fables humanity is not presented as superior to the animals Prime examples of the fable in India are the Panchatantra and the Jataka tales These included Vishnu Sarma s Panchatantra the Hitopadesha Vikram and The Vampire and Syntipas Seven Wise Masters which were collections of fables that were later influential throughout the Old World Ben E Perry compiler of the Perry Index of Aesop s fables has argued controversially that some of the Buddhist Jataka tales and some of the fables in the Panchatantra may have been influenced by similar Greek and Near Eastern ones 20 Earlier Indian epics such as Vyasa s Mahabharata and Valmiki s Ramayana also contained fables within the main story often as side stories or back story The most famous folk stories from the Near East were the One Thousand and One Nights also known as the Arabian Nights The Panchatantra is an ancient Indian assortment of fables The earliest recorded work ascribed to Vishnu Sharma dates to around 300 BCE The tales are likely much older than the compilation having been passed down orally prior to the book s compilation The word Panchatantra is a blend of the words pancha which means five in Sanskrit and tantra which means weave It implies weaving together multiple threads of narrative and moral lessons together to form a book Europe edit nbsp Printed image of the fable of the blacksmith and the dog from the sixteenth century 21 Fables had a further long tradition through the Middle Ages and became part of European high literature During the 17th century the French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine 1621 1695 saw the soul of the fable in the moral a rule of behavior Starting with the Aesopian pattern La Fontaine set out to satirize the court the church the rising bourgeoisie indeed the entire human scene of his time 22 La Fontaine s model was subsequently emulated by England s John Gay 1685 1732 23 Poland s Ignacy Krasicki 1735 1801 24 Italy s Lorenzo Pignotti 1739 1812 25 verification needed and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi 1754 1827 26 verification needed Serbia s Dositej Obradovic 1745 1801 27 and Tomas de Iriarte y Oropesa 1750 1791 28 verification needed France s Jean Pierre Claris de Florian 1755 1794 29 and Russia s Ivan Krylov 1769 1844 30 Modern era edit In modern times while the fable has been trivialized in children s books it has also been fully adapted to modern adult literature Felix Salten s Bambi 1923 is a Bildungsroman a story of a protagonist s coming of age cast in the form of a fable James Thurber used the ancient fable style in his books Fables for Our Time 1940 and Further Fables for Our Time 1956 and in his stories The Princess and the Tin Box in The Beast in Me and Other Animals 1948 and The Last Clock A Fable for the Time Such As It Is of Man in Lanterns and Lances 1961 Wladyslaw Reymont s The Revolt 1922 a metaphor for the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 described a revolt by animals that take over their farm in order to introduce equality George Orwell s Animal Farm 1945 similarly satirized Stalinist Communism in particular and totalitarianism in general in the guise of animal fable In the 21st century the Neapolitan writer Sabatino Scia is the author of more than two hundred fables that he describes as western protest fables The characters are not only animals but also things beings and elements from nature Scia s aim is the same as in the traditional fable playing the role of revealer of human society In Latin America the brothers Juan and Victor Ataucuri Garcia have contributed to the resurgence of the fable But they do so with a novel idea use the fable as a means of dissemination of traditional literature of that place In the book Fabulas Peruanas published in 2003 31 they have collected myths legends and beliefs of Andean and Amazonian Peru to write as fables The result has been an extraordinary work rich in regional nuances 32 Fabulists edit nbsp Aesop by Velazquez nbsp Valmiki nbsp Jean de La Fontaine nbsp Sulkhan Saba Orbeliani nbsp John Gay nbsp Christian Furchtegott Gellert nbsp Gotthold Ephraim Lessing nbsp Ignacy Krasicki nbsp Dositej Obradovic nbsp Felix Maria de Samaniego nbsp Tomas de Iriarte y Oropesa nbsp Jean Pierre Claris de Florian nbsp Ivan Krylov nbsp Dositej Obradovic nbsp Hans Christian Andersen nbsp Ambrose Bierce nbsp Joel Chandler Harris nbsp Wladyslaw Reymont nbsp Felix Salten nbsp Don Marquis nbsp James Thurber nbsp George OrwellClassic editAesop mid 6th century BCE author s of Aesop s Fables Vishnu Sarma c 200 BCE author of the anthropomorphic political treatise and fable collection the Panchatantra Bidpai c 200 BCE author of Sanskrit Hindu and Pali Buddhist animal fables in verse and prose sometimes derived from Jataka tales Syntipas c 100 BCE Indian philosopher reputed author of a collection of tales known in Europe as The Story of the Seven Wise Masters Gaius Julius Hyginus Hyginus Latin author native of Spain or Alexandria c 64 BCE 17 CE author of the Fabulae Phaedrus 15 BCE 50 CE Roman fabulist by birth a Macedonian Nizami Ganjavi Persian 1141 1209 Walter of England 12th century Anglo Norman poet published Aesop s Fables in distichs c 1175 Marie de France 12th century Jalal ad Din Muhammad Balkhi Persian 1207 1273 Vardan Aygektsi died 1250 Armenian priest and fabulist Berechiah ha Nakdan Berechiah the Punctuator or Grammarian 13th century author of Jewish fables adapted from Aesop s Fables Robert Henryson Scottish 15th century author of The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian Leonardo da Vinci Italian 1452 1519 Biernat of Lublin Polish 1465 after 1529 Jean de La Fontaine French 1621 1695 Sulkhan Saba Orbeliani Georgian 1658 1725 author of The Book of Wisdom and Lies Bernard de Mandeville English 1670 1733 author of The Fable of the Bees John Gay English 1685 1732 Christian Furchtegott Gellert German 1715 1769 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing German 1729 1781 Ignacy Krasicki Polish 1735 1801 author of Fables and Parables 1779 and New Fables published 1802 Dositej Obradovic Serbian 1739 1811 Felix Maria de Samaniego Spanish 1745 1801 best known for The Ant and the Cicade Tomas de Iriarte Spanish 1750 91 Jean Pierre Claris de Florian French 1755 94 author of Fables published 1802 Ivan Dmitriev Russia 1760 1837 Ivan Krylov Russian 1769 1844 Hans Christian Andersen Danish 1805 1875 Modern editLeo Tolstoy 1828 1910 Rafael Pombo 1833 1912 Colombian fabulist poet writer Ambrose Bierce 1842 1914 Joel Chandler Harris 1848 1908 Sholem Aleichem 1859 1916 George Ade 1866 1944 Fables in Slang etc Wladyslaw Reymont 1868 1925 Felix Salten 1869 1945 Don Marquis 1878 1937 author of the fables of archy and mehitabel Franz Kafka 1883 1924 Damon Runyon 1884 1946 James Thurber 1894 1961 Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time George Orwell 1903 1950 Dr Seuss 1904 1991 Isaac Bashevis Singer 1904 1991 Nankichi Niimi 1913 1943 Japanese author and poet Sergey Mikhalkov 1913 2009 Soviet author of children s books Pierre Gamarra 1919 2009 Richard Adams 1920 2016 author of Watership Down Jose Saramago 1922 2010 Portuguese writer author of Ensaio sobre a cegueira Italo Calvino 1923 1985 Cosmicomics etc Arnold Lobel 1933 87 author of Fables winner 1981 Caldecott Medal Ramsay Wood born 1943 author of Kalila and Dimna Fables of Friendship and Betrayal Bill Willingham born 1956 author of Fables graphic novels David Sedaris born 1956 author of Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk Hayao Miyazaki born 1941 Japanese filmmaker director of Spirited Away Guillermo del Toro 33 born 1964 Mexican filmmaker director of Pan s Labyrinth Pendleton Ward born 1982 American animator creator of Adventure TimeNotable fable collections editAesop s Fables by Aesop 34 Jataka tales 35 Panchatantra by Vishnu Sarma 36 Baital Pachisi also known as Vikram and The Vampire 37 Hitopadesha Kalila wa Dimna A Book of Wisdom and Lies by Sulkhan Saba Orbeliani 38 Seven Wise Masters by Syntipas One Thousand and One Nights also known as Arabian Nights c 800 900 39 40 Fables 1668 1694 by Jean de La Fontaine citation needed Fables and Parables 1779 by Ignacy Krasicki Fairy Tales 1837 by Hans Christian Andersen 41 Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings 1881 by Joel Chandler Harris 42 Fantastic Fables 1899 by Ambrose Bierce 43 Fables for Our Time 1940 by James Thurber 99 Fables 1960 by William March Collected Fables 2000 by Ambrose Bierce edited by S T JoshiSee also edit nbsp Novels portal nbsp Children s literature portalSee also Category Fabulists Allegory Animal tale Anthropomorphism Apologia Apologue Fabel Fables Fairy tale Fantastique Ghost story Parable Proverb WisdomNotes edit Stevenson Robert 2017 10 02 Fables CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 978 1 9778 5352 3 Khanna Neerja Deswal amp Pooja English Language Through Literature For University of Delhi Vikas Publishing House p 58 ISBN 978 93 5453 204 7 YAO DAVID Decoding Greek and Latin roots in English Part 2 4 探源英语词根 轻松扩大英语词汇 Expand English Vocabulary in Unique Smart Way Version 2022 Legoo Mandarin p 17 Rakhmi Annisa 2012 01 01 Lets Narrate A Text PT Balai Pustaka Persero p 56 Atherton Mark 2012 08 20 There and Back Again J R R Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit Bloomsbury Publishing p 10 ISBN 978 0 85772 166 2 Vigil Angel 2000 06 15 The Eagle on the Cactus Traditional Stories from Mexico Bloomsbury Publishing USA pp XLVI ISBN 978 0 313 06991 8 For example in First Timothy neither give heed to fables and refuse profane and old wives fables 1 Tim 1 4 and 4 4 respectively Strong s 3454 my8os muthos moo thos perhaps from the same as 3453 through the idea of tuition a tale i e fiction myth fable For we have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ but were eyewitnesses of his majesty 2nd Peter 1 16 Danner Horace Gerald 2014 03 27 A Thesaurus of English Word Roots Rowman amp Littlefield p 270 ISBN 978 1 4422 3326 3 Rothstein Andrew Rothstein Evelyn Lauber Gerald 2006 12 13 Writing as Learning A Content Based Approach Corwin Press p 188 ISBN 978 1 4522 3966 8 Enzyklopadie des Marchens 1977 see Fabel Asopica etc Sargsyan Armen 2019 03 06 Armenian Folk Fables Amazon Digital Services LLC KDP Print US ISBN 978 1 7989 0520 3 Tribhuvan University Michael Ondaatje s Anil s Ghost PDF Retrieved 2024 03 21 Burkert 1992 121 P W Buckham p 245 Atim Oton October 25 2011 Reaching African Children Through Fables and Animation Huffingtonpost com Retrieved May 8 2012 a b The Norton Anthology World Literature 4th ed 500 Fifth Avenue New York NY W W Norton amp Company 2018 pp 902 905 ISBN 978 0 393 60285 2 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location link Harris Joel Chandler 2015 06 12 Uncle Remus Xist Publishing ISBN 978 1 68195 042 6 Ohale Nagnath 2020 05 25 Indian Fables Stories In Indian Culture Indian fables with morals In Indian Culture Archived from the original on 2020 07 31 Retrieved 2020 07 16 Ben E Perry Introduction p xix in Babrius and Phaedrus 1965 Fabel van de smid en de hond lib ugent be Retrieved 2020 09 28 Translations of his 12 books of fables are available online at oaks nvg org His two collections of 1727 and 1738 are available in one volume on Google Books at books google co uk His Bajki i przypowiesci Fables and Parables 1779 are available online at ug edu pl HisFavole e Novelle 1785 is available on da torchi di R di Napoli 1830 Retrieved May 8 2012 via Internet Archive pignotti favola Rossi Giovanni Gherardo De 1790 HisFavole 1788 is available on Google Books Retrieved May 8 2012 9 books of fables are available online in Spanish at amediavoz com HisFabulas Literariasare available on 1816 Retrieved May 8 2012 via Internet Archive Tomas de Iriarte y Oropesa fabulas His five books of fables are available online in French at shanaweb net Archived 2010 06 12 at the Wayback Machine 5 books of fables are available online in English at friends partners org Archived 2011 02 21 at the Wayback Machine Garcia Juan Miguel Ataucuri 2002 Fabulas peruanas in Spanish Gaviota Azul Editores Juan y Victor Ataucuri Garcia Fabulas Peruanas Gaviota Azul Editores Lima 2003 ISBN 9972 2561 0 3 Kermode Mark 30 July 2013 The Devil s Backbone The Past Is Never Dead The Criterion Collection Retrieved 25 June 2016 For those with a weakness for the beautiful monsters of modern cinema del Toro has earned himself a reputation as the finest living exponent of fabulist film Aesop 1994 Aesop s Fables Wordsworth Editions ISBN 978 1 85326 128 2 Francis Henry Thomas Thomas Edward Joseph 1916 Jataka Tales Cambridge University Press Sharma Vishnu 2021 08 01 Panchatantra Prakash Books ISBN 978 93 5440 376 7 Burton Richard F 2023 07 16 Vikram and the Vampire BoD Books on Demand ISBN 979 10 418 0758 1 Orbeliani Sulxan Saba 1982 A Book of Wisdom and Lies Octagon Press ISBN 978 0 900860 97 3 Marzolph Ulrich 2007 Arabian Nights In Kate Fleet Gudrun Kramer Denis Matringe John Nawas Everett Rowson eds Encyclopaedia of Islam 3rd ed doi 10 1163 1573 3912 ei3 COM 0021 Arabian Nights the work known in Arabic as Alf layla wa layla The Thousand and One Nights The Arabian Nights Entertainments J C Nimmo and Bain 1883 Andersen Hans Christian 2015 09 28 Andersen s Fairy Tales and Stories Fairy Tales Folktales Collections 谷月社 Harris Joel Chandler 1881 Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings the Folk lore of the Old Plantation D Appleton Bierce Ambrose 1898 Fantastic Fables G P Putnam s sons ISBN 978 1 4429 9139 2 References edit nbsp Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica article Fable nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fables Buckham Philip Wentworth 1827 Theatre of the Greeks J Smith The Theatre of the Greeks King James Bible New Testament authorised DLR David Lee Rubin Fable in Verse The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Read fables by Aesop and La FontaineFurther reading editGish Jen 3 Jan 2011 Three Modern Fables to Capture Your Imagination Audio with transcript NPR All Things Considered Tobias Carroll 29 Sep 2017 The Challenge of Modern Fables Ben 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