Fables -- Translations into English
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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- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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)
- The Metamorphoses: A Complete English Translation and Mythological Index (c2000), by Ovid, trans. by A. S. Kline, illust. by Hendrik Goltzius (illustrated HTML at poetryintranslation.com)
- The Fables of Phaedrus (prose and verse translations, from an edition that also included the Comedies of Terence; 1887), by Phaedrus, trans. by Henry T. Riley and Christopher Smart (Gutenberg text)
- Metamorphoses, by Ovid, ed. by Samuel Garth, trans. by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, and William Congreve (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Metamorphoses (London: William Seres, 1567), by Ovid, trans. by Arthur Golding (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
- Metamorphoses (with glossary), by Ovid, ed. by Barboura Flues, trans. by Arthur Golding (PDF at sourcetext.com)
- Metamorphoses, by Ovid, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
- The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso, Elucidated by an Analysis and Explanation of the Fables (fifth edition; New York: A. S. Barnes and Burr, 1860), by Ovid, ed. by N. C. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
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Filed under: Fables- The Gobble-Up Stories (revised and augmented edition, 2007), by Oscar Mandel (PDF at Caltech)
- Aesop's Fables (and other tales; from various sources), by Aesop (HTML and RealAudio at aesopfables.com)
- An Argosy of Fables: A Representative Selection From the Fable (New York: F. A. Stokes, c1921), ed. by Frederic Taber Cooper, illust. by Paul Bransom (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Fables of Babrius (London: Lockwood and Co., 1860), by Babrius, trans. by James Davies, contrib. by Aesop and George Cornewall Lewis (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- Parables From Nature (London: T. Nelson & Sons, n.d.), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Folk-Lore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (Harvard Classics v17; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, and H. C. Andersen
- A Collection of Fables, For the Instruction and Amusement of Little Misses and Masters (York, UK: J. Kendrew, ca. 1825) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Bashful Earthquake, and Other Fables and Verses (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1898), by Oliver Herford
- The Gobble-Up Stories (revised and augmented edition, 2007), by Oscar Mandel (PDF at Caltech)
- Ade's Fables (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1914), by George Ade, illust. by John T. McCutcheon
- Fables for the Times, by Henry Wallace Phillips, illust. by T. S. Sullivant (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Fables in Slang (Chicago and New York: H. S. Stone and Co., 1901), by George Ade, illust. by Clyde J. Newman (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- Forty Modern Fables (New York: R. H. Russell, 1901), by George Ade
- The Girl Proposition: A Bunch of He and She Fables (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1904), by George Ade, illust. by John T. McCutcheon, John Francis Holme, Carl Werntz, and Clyde J. Newman (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
- Hand-Made Fables (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by George Ade, illust. by John T. McCutcheon (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
- More Fables (1900), by George Ade, illust. by Clyde J. Newman
- Tell Me a Story, by Lisa Suhay (PDF at Wayback Machine)
- Fairy Stories and Fables, by James Baldwin (HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- 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 de La Fontaine, Précédées de la Vie d'Ésope, Accompagnées de Notes Nouvelles (in French; Tours: A. Mame et fils, 1866), by Jean de La Fontaine, contrib. by D. S., illust. by Karl Girardet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fables de La Fontaine, Précédées de la Vie d'Ésope, Accompagnées de Notes Nouvelles (in French; Tours: A. Mame et fils, 1884), by Jean de La Fontaine, contrib. by D. S., illust. by Karl Girardet
- Fables de La Fontaine, Précédées de la Vie d'Ésope, Accompagnées de Notes Nouvelles (in French; Tours: A. Mame et fils, 1885), by Jean de La Fontaine, contrib. by D. S., illust. by Karl Girardet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fables de La Fontaine, Précédées de la Vie d'Ésope, Accompagnées de Notes Nouvelles (in French; Tours: A. Mame et fils, 1888), by Jean de La Fontaine, contrib. by D. S., illust. by Karl Girardet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Public and Private Life of Animals: Adapted From the French of Balzac, Droz, Jules Janin, E. Lemoine, A. de Musset, Georges Sand, &c. (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1877), ed. by J. Thomson, contrib. by P.-J. Stahl, illust. by J. J. Grandville (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Abraham Lincoln Toni Kin, qa Aesop Tawoyake Kin: Life of Abraham Lincoln and Aesop's Fables (in Santee; Santee Agency, NE: A. L. Riggs, 1893), by James Garvie, Jennie W. Cox, and Eunice Kitto
- The First Book of the Hitopadeśa: Containing the Sanskrit Text, With Interlinear Transliteration, Grammatical Analysis, and English Translation (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864), ed. by F. Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Panchatantra (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1925), trans. by Arthur W. Ryder (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Panchatantra Reconstructed: An Attempt to Establish the Lost Original Sanskrit Text of the Most Famous of Indian Story-Collections on the Basis of the Principal Extant Versions (2 volumes (American Oriental Series v2 and 3); New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1924), ed. by Franklin Edgerton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Panchatantra Tales (illustrated HTML with commentary at panchatantra.org)
- The Second, Third, and Fourth books of the Hitopadeśa: Containing the Sanskrit Text, With Interlinear Transliteration (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865), ed. by F. Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Tortoise and the Geese, and Other Fables of Bidpai, by Maude Barrows Dutton Lynch, illust. by E. Boyd Smith (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
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