Fables & Fabulists: Wisdom wearing fur and feathers

The fable across cultures — Aesop, La Fontaine, and Ambrose Bierce’s wickedly modern Fantastic Fables — short tales with sharp teeth.

In this collection

• Aspirants Three
• Disappointment
• Californian Summer Pictures
• The Wise and Good
• A Bit of Science
• Rejected
• The Realm of the Unreal
• The Ants and the Grasshopper
• The Good Government
• The Impostor
• The Stone Raft
• One of the Unfair Sex
• Some Ante-Mortem Epitaphs
• A Creature of Habit
• Surprised
• The Division Superintendent
• One Officer, One Man
• The Air-Mothers
• The Subdued Editor
• A Tiger's Skin
• The Suitable Surroundings
• Religious Progress
• To Oscar Wilde
• The National Guardsman
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