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Fables and Fabulists

by Thomas Newbigging

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Chapter I — Definition of Fable
  3. 3Chapter II — Characteristics of Fables
  4. 4Chapter III — The Moral and Application of Fables
  5. 5Chapter IV — Fabulists as Censors
  6. 6Chapter V — Lessons Taught by Fables
  7. 7Chapter VI — Æsop
  8. 8Chapter VII — Stories Related of Æsop
  9. 9Chapter VIII — The Æsopian Fables
  10. 10Chapter IX — Phædrus and Babrius
  11. 11Chapter X — The Fable in History and Myth
  12. 12Chapter XI — Hindoo, Arabian, and Persian Fables — Pilpay, Locman —…
  13. 13Chapter XII — Modern Fabulists: La Fontaine, Gay
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Modern Fabulists: Dodsley, Northcote
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Modern Fabulists: Lessing, Yriarte, Krilof
  16. 16Chapter XV — Other and Occasional Fabulists
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Conclusion

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