Walter Crane, ill. Gutenberg #25433

Æsop & La Fontaine

The sites listed below may be very useful. Posts about a particular fable may contain classification or cataloging information, but not necessarily. The Project Gutenberg has published very fine collections of Æsop’s Fables, including illustrations. La Fontaine is also online, most successfully. These collections are old, but they are the classics.

• Æsop, Wikipedia
• Perry Index: Æsop’s Fables
• Laura Gibbs: mythfolkore.net/aesopica (Æsop’s Fables, various authors and collections)
• Aarne-Thompson Classification Systems: tales and motifs AT
• Aarne-Tompson-Uther Classification of Folk Tales ATU

1. Æsop’s Fables: a New Translation

V. S. Vernon Jones, (tr) G. K. Chesterton (intro),  Arthur Rackham (ill)

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11339/11339-h/11339-h.htm

[EBook #11339]

 

2. Æsop’s Fables

George Fyler Townsend, translator

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21/21-h/21-h.htm#link2H_4_0008

[EBook #21] 

 

3. Æsop’s Fables

Harrison Weir, John Tenniel and Ernest Griset, illustrators

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18732/18732-h/18732-h.htm

[EBook #18732]

 

4. The Æsop for Children

Milo Winter, illustrator

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19994/19994-h/19994-h.htm

[EBook #19994]

 

5. The Baby’s Own Æsop

Walter Crane, illustrator

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25433/25433-h/25433-h.htm

[EBook #25433]

 

Jean de La Fontaine (1621 – 1695)

Les Fables de La Fontaine Château-Thierry (The Complete Fables FR/EN)

 

1. A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine, Percy J. Billinghurst

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25357/25357-h/25357-h.htm

[EBook #25357]

 

2. The Fables of La Fontaine, Elizur Wright, J. W. M. Gibbs, 1882 [1841]
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7241/7241-h/7241-h.htm

[EBook #7241]

 

3. The Fables of La Fontaine, Walter Thornbury (transl.) and Gustave Doré (illus.), 1886
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/50316/50316-h/50316-h.htm

[EBook #50316]

 

4. Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks, From the French of La Fontaine, 1918 

W. T. (William Trowbridge) Larned (trans.), John Rae, illustrator 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24108/24108-h/24108-h.htm 

[EBook #24108]

 

 

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1 March 2017
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