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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
fable brief allegorical narrative, in verse or prose, illustrating a moral thesis or satirizing human beings. The characters of a fable are usually animals who talk and act like people while retaining their animal traits. The oldest known fables are those in the Panchatantra, a collection of fables in Sanskrit, and those attributed to the Greek Aesop, perhaps the most famous of all fabulists. Other important writers of fables include Jean de La Fontaine, whose fables are noted for their sophistication and wit, the Russian poet Ivan Krylov, and the German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing,... Read more
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The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English fable • noun   1. a fable about a fox synonyms : tale, fairy tale, moral tale, parable.   2. heroes in Norse fables synonyms : story, legend, myth, traditional story, saga, epic, lay.   3. children telling fables synonyms : lie ... Read more
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World Encyclopedia fable Literary genre which takes the form of a short allegorical tale, intended to convey a moral. The oldest extant fables are the Greek ... Read more

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