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Aesop's Fables

SKU
016561
ISBN
9780451529534
Grade 10
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This comprehensive collection contains over 200 of Aesop's famous fables. "Fox and the Grapes," "Ants and the Grasshopper," and "Wolf and the Shepard" are just a few of the tales featured here. The tales are translated into readable, modern American English, and some are enhanced by black and white woodcut illustrations by the French artist J. J. Grandville. Scholar Sam Pickering provides an introduction that places Aesop's work in historical and cultural context. Edited and with an afterword by Jack Zipes; bibliography and index included. 288 pgs, pb. ~ Lisa

Category Description for Omnibus IV: The Ancient World

First Semester Primary Books: Proverbs, Job, Psalms, Bacchae and Other Plays, Iliad of Homer, Introduction to Arisotle, Landmark Thucydides, Lysistrata and Other Plays, The Republic.

First Semester Secondary Books: Aesop's Fables (Signet Classic), Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Art and the Bible, Augustus Caesar's World, Death on the Nile, Troilus and Cressida, 1st and 2nd Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther.

Second Semester Primary: Gospel of Mark, Philippians and Colossians, Annals of Imperial Rome, Apostolic Fathers, Cicero: Selected Works, Eclogues and Georgics, New Complete Works of Josephus, Meditations, Metamorphosis, New Oxford Annotated Apocrypha, On the Nature of Things, Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements Vol. 1, War with Hannibal.

Second Semester Secondary Books: Antony and Cleopatra (Oxford School Shakespeare), Desiring God, Knowing God, Lost World, Mythology, Phantastes, Plutarch's Lives Vol. 2, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

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Product Format:Softcover Book
Grade:10
Brand:Signet Books
ISBN:9780451529534
Length in Inches:7
Width in Inches:4.5
Height in Inches:1
Weight in Pounds:0.35
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