Aesop’s Fables is the name given to a collection of short, moralistic stories attributed to Aesop, a Thracian wise man who spent most of his life in slavery on the island of Samos. Most of Aesop’s fables feature personified animals, which generally have a one-to-one symbolic relationship with a vice or virtue. For example, the fox frequently symbolizes cleverness; the hare, agility; the bull, recklessness; the donkey, fatuousness; and the ant, industriousness. Aesop throws these animals together in different social environments and in different combinations, postulating allegorically about what his formulations produce. His moral animal fables have delighted young and old for centuries. This edition of the classic features the original illustrations of Milo Winter