Eight hundred+ fables from the Talmud and Ancient Greece to early twentieth century, includes Aesop and Phaedrus, Florian, La Fontaine, Lessing, Dodsley, Gay, Yriarte, Pignotti, 100 fables from the pen of Kriloff, to the 'moderns' Stevenson, Tolstoi, Ambrose Bierce and Anatole France; at the time, the most complete collection of fables ever published.
