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Article: Fables Less and Less Fabulous: English Fables and Parables of the Nineteenth Century and Their Illustrations.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
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- January 1, 2000
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Fables Less and Less Fabulous: English Fables and Parables of the
Nineteenth Century and Their Illustrations.
By Horst Dolvers. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press;
London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 207 pp. [pound]29.
Aesop was a slave who lived on the island of Samos in the sixth century bc. A rumour, accepted by the author of this book, has it that he hailed from Phrygia; in fact, as Herodotus, who spent part of his life on Samos, knew, he was from Thrace. Horst Dolvers calls him 'The Phrygian slave'; it is not clear whether he has read the Fables in Greek. His interest in Aesop's influence has been stimulated by a review the ...