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Fables

Fables are allegorical tales, illustrating a moral or satirizing human behavior. The characters of a fable are usually personified animals. Important collections of fables are those of Aesop, Jean de la Fontaine, Ivan Krylov, the Buddhist Jataka tales, and the Indian Panchatantra.

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• - Full text of many public domain folktales, ordered alphabetically.
  
• - A book by Maxine Harris, includes excerpts.
  
• - A collection of contemporary fables, parables, and other reports of "things that go bump in the night."
  
• - Biography and bibliography of Russia's most famous fabulist.
  
• - Collection of short funny fables from HumorSphere.
  
• - Choose a fable and see the various visualisations.
  
• - Text and pictures of a fable by Ivan Krilov.
  
• - Selected for second grade reading by Lida Brown McMurry.
  
• - Fables and parables with frogs as the character.
  
• - Fables pertaining to the fantasy world, including gypsies, werewolves and ghosts.
  
• - Infoplease.com short overview.
  
• - Fifty fables with a rural theme.
  
  

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