Directory of Fables Resources

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Fables are allegorical tales, illustrating a moral or satirizing human behavior. The characters of a fable are usually personified animals. Important collections of fables are those of Aesop, Jean de la Fontaine, Ivan Krylov, the Buddhist Jataka tales, and the Indian Panchatantra.

Subcategories

• Aesop's Fables
• Jataka Tales
• La Fontaine, Jean de

Resources in This Category

• Fable

  http://www.infoplease.com/ce5/CE017763.html
  Infoplease.com short overview.

• Fifty Famous Fables

  ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext03/fffbl10.txt
  Selected for second grade reading by Lida Brown McMurry.

• Frog Fables

  http://allaboutfrogs.org/stories/fables.html
  Fables and parables with frogs as the character.

• The Stuffed Fabulist

  http://www.stuffedfabulist.com/
  A collection of contemporary fables, parables, and other reports of "things that go bump in the night."

Related Categories

• Home > Arts > Humanities > Literature in Art > Fables and Fairy Tales
• Home > Society > Folklore > Literature > Tales > Fairy Tales > World Tales > Chinese
• Home > Society > Folklore > Literature > Tales > Fairy Tales > World Tales > Indian

 

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