A Book of Children's LiteratureLillian Hollowell Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1939 - 942 pages Fairy tales, poetry, and fiction for children of all ages. |
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... Aesop is the name pre - eminently associated with the fable . Some doubt whether such a person as Aesop ever lived and recited the fables attributed to him . We are sure of at least one thing - he did not commit to writing any of the ...
... Aesop is the name pre - eminently associated with the fable . Some doubt whether such a person as Aesop ever lived and recited the fables attributed to him . We are sure of at least one thing - he did not commit to writing any of the ...
Page 286
... Aesop's honor in Athens . For a long time these fables existed only through oral tradition . No copy is extant of the earliest collection made about 320 B.c. by Demetrius Phalerus , founder of the Alexandrian Library . There was a Latin ...
... Aesop's honor in Athens . For a long time these fables existed only through oral tradition . No copy is extant of the earliest collection made about 320 B.c. by Demetrius Phalerus , founder of the Alexandrian Library . There was a Latin ...
Page 309
... Aesop , The Aesop for Children . Illustrated by Milo Winter . Chicago : Rand McNally & Company , 1919 . — , Aesop's Fables . Illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff . New York : The Viking Press , Inc. , 1933 . A beautiful book for a ...
... Aesop , The Aesop for Children . Illustrated by Milo Winter . Chicago : Rand McNally & Company , 1919 . — , Aesop's Fables . Illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff . New York : The Viking Press , Inc. , 1933 . A beautiful book for a ...
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