cocoonofbooks's review against another edition
3.0
It was very interesting to read this whole collection. It's instructive to see just how many fables Aesop created in order to produce maybe a dozen that I, at least, recognized. There were some I liked that I'd never heard of, but it was clear that generally the best ones have survived. There were also some common phrases that have become divorced from their original fable. (I'd heard "birds of a feather flock together" but didn't know there was a fable to go with it.) In some cases he returned to the same theme multiple times, as if trying to figure out which story most memorably conveyed the intended moral. Some stories didn't seem to have any moral. Some seemed to contradict each other in their lessons. Overall, I enjoyed reading this mostly for the lesson in how much background work goes into creating something lasting and memorable.
lailai78's review
2.0
I really liked the introduction and life of Aesop at the end of the book.
I found the fables to be very surface level, and not detailed enough, as I remember more detailed stories from when I was a child.
There are probably better versions of Aesop's Fables out there.
I found the fables to be very surface level, and not detailed enough, as I remember more detailed stories from when I was a child.
There are probably better versions of Aesop's Fables out there.
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