Aesop's Fables (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)

Aesops Fables features more than 200 fables, specially selected for young readers and beautifully illustrated with engravings and color plates by Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, and Ernest Griset. It includes all of the classic fables whose titles and morals have become part of our common cultural vocabulary, among them The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Tortoise and the Hare, The City Mouse and the Country Mouse, The Dog in the Manger, and The Fox and the Grapes. Part fairy tale, part fantasy story, part parable with a lesson to impart, each of these fables is a polished gem of storytelling craft whose luster never dulls. Aesops Fables is one of Barnes & NoblesCollectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the worlds greatest authors and offers hours of pleasure to readers young and old.