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• Translations of foreign novels; a selected list (Boston Book Co., 1917), by Minerva Ethel Grimm (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Great short novels of the world : a collection of complete tales chosen from the literatures of all periods and countries (A. & C. Boni, 1932), by Barrett H. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fables Ancient And Modern Translated Into Verse From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, With Orginal Poems, by Mr. Dryden (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1700), by John Dryden, contrib. by Homer, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• The Fables of Aesop, As First Printed by William Caxton in 1484, With Those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio (2 volumes; London: D. Nutt, 1889), by Aesop, ed. by Joseph Jacobs, trans. by William Caxton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, with those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio (D. Nutt, 1889), by Joseph Jacobs, William Caxton, and Aesop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables of Aesop and others (S. Probasco, 1831), by Aesop and Samuel Croxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fables of Æsop, and Others: With Designs on Wood, by Aesop, illust. by Thomas Bewick (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Complete Fables of Jean de la Fontaine (edited with rhymed verse English translations alongside original French; Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1988), by Jean de La Fontaine, ed. by Norman B. Spector (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Fables of La Fontaine (New York: J. Miller, c1879), by Jean de La Fontaine, trans. by Elizur Wright, illust. by J. J. Grandville
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Fables of La Fontaine (new edition with notes; 1882), by Jean de La Fontaine, ed. by J. W. M. Gibbs, trans. by Elizur Wright (Gutenberg text)
• The Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine, by Jean de La Fontaine (Gutenberg text)
• The fables of La Fontaine (G. Bell, 1909), by Jean de La Fontaine, J. W. M. Gibbs, and Elizur Wright (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fables of La Fontaine. (E. Wright, jr. [etc.], 1841), by Jean de La Fontaine, J. J. Grandville, and Elizur Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables of La Fontaine. (Derby & Jackson, 1860), by Jean de La Fontaine, J. J. Grandville, and Elizur Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection of one hundred of Perrin's fables, accompanied with a key; containing the text, a literal and a free translation, arranged in such a manner as to point out the difference between the French and the English idiom. Also a figured pronunciation of the French ... The whole preceded by a short treatise on the sounds of the French language, compared with those of the English. (Blanchard and Lea, 1851), by Jean Baptiste Perrin and Antoine Bolmar (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection of one hundred of Perrin's fables, accompanied with a key; containing the text, a literal and a free translation, arranged in such a manner as to point out the difference between the French and the English idiom. (Lea and Blanchard, 1845), by Jean Baptiste Perrin and Antoine Bolmar (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection of one hundred of Perrin's fables (Printed for the author, 1829), by Jean Baptiste Perrin and Antoine Bolmar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fables of La Fontaine. (Ingram, Cooke, and co., 1853), by Jean de La Fontaine and Elizur Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables of La Fontaine (Sanborn, Carter & Bazin, 1856), by Jean de La Fontaine and Elizur Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fables of La Fontaine: Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré, by Jean de La Fontaine, trans. by Walter Thornbury, illust. by Gustave Doré (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine, by Jean de La Fontaine, illust. by Percy J. Billinghurst (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Original Fables of La Fontaine: Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney, by Jean de La Fontaine, trans. by F. C. Tilney (Gutenberg ebook)

• The book of wisdom and lies. (Kelmscott Press ;, 1894), by Sulxan-Saba Orbeliani, William Morris, John Oliver Wardrop, William Morris and Kelmscott Press Collection (Library of Congress), and Kelmscott Press (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Fables of Aesop, As First Printed by William Caxton in 1484, With Those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio (2 volumes; London: D. Nutt, 1889), by Aesop, ed. by Joseph Jacobs, trans. by William Caxton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Aesop's Fables, by Aesop, trans. by George Fyler Townsend (Gutenberg text)
• Aesop's Fables, by Aesop and Joseph Jacobs (HTML at Bartleby)
• Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Version From Original Sources (New York: Frank F. Lovell and Company, c1884), by Aesop, illust. by Harrison Weir, John Tenniel, and Ernest Henry Griset (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Aesop's Fables: A New Translation (1912), by Aesop, trans. by V. S. Vernon Jones, contrib. by G. K. Chesterton, illust. by Arthur Rackham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Aesop's Fables, With Text Based Chiefly on Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange (1870s edition of Cassell, Petter, Galpin, and Co.), by Aesop, illust. by Ernest Henry Griset (PDF at MSU)
• The Minor Poems of Homer: The Battle of the Frogs and Mice; Hymns and Epigrams (with introductions by Coleridge and a Life of Homer spuriously attributed to Herodotus; New York: A. Denham and Co., 1872), by Homer, trans. by Thomas Parnell, George Chapman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Congreve, Richard Hole, and Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, contrib. by Henry Nelson Coleridge and Pseudo-Herodotus
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Homer's Batrachomyomachia, hymns and epigrams. (J.R. Smith, 1858), by George Chapman, Grammaticus Musaeus, Richard Hooper, Juvenal, and Hesiod (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fables of Aesop, and others. (Printed by E. Walker for T. Bewick and son. Sold by them, Longman and Co. London, and all booksellers., 1818), by Thomas Bewick and Aesop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables of Aesop and others: (Printed for A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater ..., 1794), by Samuel Croxall and Aesop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables of Aesop and others (S. Probasco, 1831), by Aesop and Samuel Croxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aesop's fables : a new version, chiefly from original sources (J. Murray, 1848), by Thomas James and John Tenniel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aesop's fables : a new version chiefly from original sources (G.S. Appleton, 1851), by Aesop, John Tenniel, Conger Sherman, George Swett Appleton, Thomas James, and D. Appleton and Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homer's Batrachomyomachia, hymns and epigrams. Hesiod's Works and days. (J. R. Smith, 1858), by Richard Hooper, Juvenal, Grammaticus Musaeus, Hesiod, and George Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aesop's fables : complete (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1876), by Aesop, John Tenniel, and Thomas James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Æsop's fables (Educational Pub. Co., 1892), by Aesop and Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fables of La Fontaine (J.C. Nimmo and Bain, 1884), by Jean de La Fontaine, Robert Thomson, and Auguste Delierre (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fables of Æsop. (Books, 1900), by Aesop (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fables of Æsop, and Others: With Designs on Wood, by Aesop, illust. by Thomas Bewick (Gutenberg ebook)
• Some of Æsop's Fables with Modern Instances, by Aesop, trans. by Alfred Caldecott, illust. by Randolph Caldecott (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Breakfast of the Birds, and Other Stories (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1947), by Judah Steinberg, trans. by Emily Solis-Cohen, illust. by Edith Rudin (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Morall Philosophie of Doni, Drawne Out of the Auncient Writers (aka the Fables of Bidpai, based on the Panchatantra; London: H. Denham, ca. 1570), ed. by Anton Francesco Doni, trans. by Thomas North (HML at EEBO TCP)
• Fables and proverbs from the Sanskrit : being the Hitopadésa (G. Routledge and Sons, 1886), by Charles Wilkins and Henry Morley (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Man-Wolf and Other Tales, by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian (Gutenberg text)

• Stories by foreign authors. (C. Scribner's Sons, 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories by foreign authors. Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian (Scribner, 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Two family mothers. (Lee and Shepard, 1872), by Marie Sophie Schwartz, Marie A. Shipley, Selma Josefina Borg, and Marie Adelaide Shipley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Two family mothers. (Lee and Shepard, 1872), by Marie Sophie Schwartz, Marie A. Shipley, Selma Josefina Borg, and Marie Adelaide Shipley (page images at HathiTrust)

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