Aesop's Fables

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A01=Adam Silvera
A01=Carlo Gébler
Aesop
Aesopica
Age Group_Ages 12+
Age Group_Ages 12+
ancient
Ancient Greece
animals
ant and the grasshopper
Ausonius
Author_Adam Silvera
Author_Carlo Gébler
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Carlo Gébler
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Category=FYB
Category=YFB
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classic
COP=United Kingdom
dark
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fable
Fifth century BC
funny
funny stories
Gavin Weston
gods
Greece
Greek
Horace
humour
illustrated
Language_English
Latin
PA=Available
Phaedrus
power
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
re-telling
realistic
Rome
Short stories
slave
softlaunch
tortoise and the hare
witty

Product details

  • ISBN 9781789542622
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Jan 2020
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 12+
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A witty, scatological illustrated version of the world's most celebrated fables, allegedly written by a slave in the 5th century BC. A book for our times: as Gébler notes, Aesop has two subjects – the exercise of power and the experience of the powerless, who endure life and all that it inflicts on them. This retelling of the Fables makes them relevant and richly enjoyable. Gavin Weston's brilliant images complement Gébler's prose.

Large and fierce animals kill and butcher weaker creatures; gods play games with the hopes and fears of lesser species, including men and women; and occasionally the weak turn the tables on the strong, exposing their pretensions. This is a stunning new version of a book that was often bowdlerised and used to teach moral lessons to children. Gébler's Aesop is darker and more realistic, and compulsively readable.

Gébler was born in Dublin, the elder son of the Irish writers Ernest Gébler and Edna O'Brien. He is a novelist, biographer, playwright and teacher, frequently working with prisoners in Northern Irish jails. His novel The Dead Eight, based on events that took place in rural Tipperary in 1940, was described by Julian Evans as having a 'Swiftian understanding of the world's secret machinations'. His other novels include How to Murder a Man (1998) and A Good Day For A Dog. Driving through Cuba: An East-West Journey was published in 1988, and his other non fiction books include The Glass Curtain, about the sectarian divisions of Belfast, and Father and I: a Memoir, a book about his difficult relationship with his distant father.