A nice part about this Kindle edition is the "Life of Aesop", a section that comes after the fables. It gives something about his life, the translation (and modification) of his works. In other words, there is no definitive copy. There were lots of later additions and variations. ( )

Came with my new Kobo. Thought it'd be an interesting first read.

Half of the stories seem like good common sense, illustrated. The other half seem like out of date junk, with points of view far afield from current values.

I suspect everyone who's ever read them in the last couple thousand years says the same thing.

It's just which story is which that changes. ( )

I can guarantee that my 24 Hour Readathon didn't start in a positive way 😂 At some point I fell asleep twice while trying to finish this book (from 14% of the ebook).
I guess I shouldn't have started the Readathon while being so tired and sleepy and I honestly didn't enjoy this book right from the beginning (I've started it like a week ago).
I suppose that boring is the right adjective and now I know better that I should have dropped it for the sake of the life in me and my poor Readathon 😂 ( )

This translation with a long and wordy preface by Townsend, is a rather inelegant one. Nevertheless, I roared with laughter at the tale 'The Father and his Sons', because the scene from tv-series Bonanza sprang to mind immediately.
Many of the fables were already known to me, a couple were new. ( )

I consider this a re-read - I can't quite remember when I read this previously, but most of the 100 fables included in this collection were familiar. I always knew that each fable included a moral - it was interesting in reading these that sometimes I didn't think the moral fit all that well. ( )