Fable - Notable Fables

Notable Fables

  • The Jataka Tales
    • Henny Penny
  • Aesop's Fables by Aesop
    • The Boy Who Cried Wolf
    • The Cock and the Jewel
    • The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
  • Panchatantra by Vishnu Sarma
  • Baital Pachisi (also known as Vikram and The Vampire)
  • Hitopadesha
  • Seven Wise Masters by Syntipas
  • One Thousand and One Nights (also known as Arabian Nights, ca. 800–900)
  • The Fable of the Bees (1714) by Bernard de Mandeville
  • Fables and Parables (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki
  • The Emperor's New Clothes (1837) by Hans Christian Andersen
  • Bunt (Revolt, 1922) by Władysław Reymont
  • Fables for Our Time (1940) and Further Fables for Our Time (1956) by James Thurber
  • Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell
  • 99 Fables (1960) by William March
  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970

Read more about this topic:  Fable

Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or fables:

    “a notable prince that was called King John;
    And he ruled England with main and with might,
    For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
    —Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 2–4)

    “Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother’s, or his brother’s brother’s God.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)