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Aesop's Fables
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  • Published: 1 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9781445845920
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 15 min
  • Narrators: Richard Briers, Jane Horrocks, Jonathan Pryce, Alison Steadman, Richard E Grant, Lindsay Duncan, Brenda Blethyn
  • RRP: $13.99

Aesop's Fables

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13 May 2025
Paperback
21 Apr 2022
EBook
4 Mar 2014
EBook
1 Nov 2013
EBook
7 Mar 2013
EBook
26 July 2007
Audiobook
1 May 2012
Paperback
20 Jan 2006
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1 Nov 2013
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40 favourite fables by Aesop, specially adapted for young children and read by Richard Briers, Jane Horrocks, Jonathan Pryce, Alison Steadman, Richard E. Grant, Lindsay Duncan and Brenda Blethyn.

40 of Aesop's tales, specially adapted for young children. Read by Richard Briers, Jane Horrocks, Jonathan Pryce, Alison Steadman, Richard E. Grant, Lindsay Duncan and Brenda Blethyn. Stories include: The Hare & the Tortoise/The Frogs & the Ox/The Fox & the Crow/The Monkey as King/The Bundle of Sticks/The Gnat & the Lion/The North Wind & the Sun/The Fox & the Grapes/The Dog, the Cockerel & the Fox/The Miller, His Son & the Donkey/The Wolf & the Heron/The Donkey in the Lion's Skin/The Ant & the Grasshopper/The Vain Jackdaw/The Frogs who Wanted a King/The Cat & the Mice/The Lion & the Mouse/The Caged Bird & the Bat/The Fox & the Goat/The Lion & the Elephant/The Crow & the Pitcher/The Fox & the Stork/Two Travellers & a Bear/The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs/The Kid & the Wolf/The Old Lion & the Fox/The Eagle & the Jackdaw/The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing/The Goatherd & the Wild Goats/The Dog in the Manger/Androcles & The Lion, plus 9 more.
  • Published: 1 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9781445845920
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 15 min
  • Narrators: Richard Briers, Jane Horrocks, Jonathan Pryce, Alison Steadman, Richard E Grant, Lindsay Duncan, Brenda Blethyn
  • RRP: $13.99
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Aesop

Aesop lived in the early sixth century BC on the island of Samos, which lies off the coast of modern Turkey. He originally came from Thrace which was a separate country in those days, though it now forms part of Greece and Bulgaria. Very little is known about his life except that he worked as a slave on Samos for a master called Iadmon, and that he became a very famous storyteller. He was so famous that almost any fable which could have been told by him became attributed to him.
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