AESOP’S FABLE The Almost True Story of the Man Behind the Stories Before the fables, there was the man. Aesop’s Fable is a sweeping, illustrated novel that imagines the life of the world’s most mischievous truth-teller—a short, sharp peasant with a black feather behind his ear and a gift for turning danger into story. From sun-baked Samos to the oracle fires of Delphi and the glittering hoards of King Croesus, Aesop crosses paths with jealous guards, a ruthless magistrate, and a love as luminous as moonlight—Dionysia. Each close call blooms into a tale: a tortoise outruns a hare, a lion spares a mouse, a fox reaches for grapes, a crow solves a problem one pebble at a time. The fables don’t interrupt the adventure—they ignite it, revealing how a born storyteller survives kings, courts, and cliffs with nothing but wit, heart, and hard-won wisdom. Told by The Marcus Brothers , who's current books include: The Corsican Brothers , and the storybooks Goolems and In Your Dreams , this is a full novel with fantastical, cinematic illustrations —sepia “history” plates and vibrant storybook scenes—designed in a classic 6×9 format. It’s the almost true origin of the fables you love: quick with humor, rich with romance, and charged with the kind of peril that forges legends. For anyone and everyone who loves a tall tale and has a lust for adventure, romance, and hysterical history.