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unusual facts about Fables, Ancient and Modern



1001 Nights of Snowfall

Painted by Esao Andrews, "The Witch's Tale" tells us the background of Frau Totenkinder, as well as revealing her many previously unrevealed connections to other fables, such as Hansel and Prince Ambrose.

An ass eating thistles

A very similar design and poem were used in Francis Barlow's illustrated volume of Aesop's Fables in 1687, where a final couplet sums up the miserly behaviour of

Anthony Alsop

Warton, in his essay on Pope, speaks of the sixty fables as ‘exquisitely written.’ Bishop Trelawny afterwards gave Alsop a prebend in Winchester, with the rectory of Brightwell in Berkshire.

Arnold Lobel

Lobel won the 1981 Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association, recognizing Fables as the year's best-illustrated U.S. children's picture book.

Babrius

Tyrwhitt (De Babrio, 1776) followed up the researches of Bentley, and for some time the efforts of scholars were directed towards reconstructing the metrical original of the prose fables.

Brain Scan Studios

Brain Scan's first published material was the three issue mini-series Touch of Death, followed by Civil Wardrobe from Rich Johnston, the horror one-shot Fiendish Fables and the six issues series One Last Song.

Chester Gould

He was hired by William Randolph Hearst's Chicago Evening American, where he produced his first comic strips, Fillum Fables (1924) and The Radio Catts.

Dirk Stoop

He was also an engraver and among his productions during a stay in England in 1651 were the plates for the first part of John Ogilby’s Aesop’s Fables and the series of “12 horses” now in the collection of the British Museum.

Fables, Ancient and Modern

Fables, Ancient and Modern contains translations of the First Book of Homer's Iliad, eight selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses, three of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (and an imitation from the Prologue on "The Character of a Good Parson"), the later medieval poem The Flower and the Leaf, which he thought was by Chaucer, and three stories from Boccacio.

George Townsend

George Fyler Townsend (1814–1900), translator of the standard English edition of Aesop's Fables

Gérald Poussin

After publishing albums of comic strips such as Tendences d�biles (1979), Papiers Gras (1981), Aventures de Buddy et Flappo (1983), and Le clan cervelas (1986), he became a painter, sculptor, illustrator (of Fables de la Fontaine 1996), poster artist, furniture maker, carpet designer, jewelry designer, and watch designer, most notably for Swatch.

Girolamo Amalteo

Girolamo Amalteo, the brother of Pomponio, was instructed by him and gave proofs of a noble genius, which is manifested in his works of design in small pictures, which appeared like miniatures, in several fables executed in fresco, and in altar-pieces which he painted in the church of San Vito.

Gyan Prakash

In 2014, a movie called Bombay Velvet will be released which is based on his Mumbai Fables, which is the story of how the city became a metropolis against the backdrop of love, greed, violence and jazz music.

Hans Vilhelm Kaalund

But Kaalund is known primarily for his Fabler for Børn (“Fables for Children,” 1845; illustrated by Johan Lundbye), a book of verses about animals.

Harrison Weir

Weir was a natural history artist and provided some of the illustrations for the Rev John George Wood's "Illustrated Natural History" (1853), served as chief illustrator for Charles St John's "Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands," and designed all of the illustrations for George Fyler Townsend's "Three Hundred Æsop's Fables" (1867).

Henrique O'Neill, 1st Viscount of Santa Mónica

He translated and adapted the Fables of Lessing and published Fabulário, In Memoriam, Feira da Ladra, and the Turra de Dois Caturras, all in out of the market editions.

Heorhiy Narbut

In 1910-1912 Narbut was an illustrator of the fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen, the fables of Ivan Krylov, and folk tales.

Horkos

One of Aesop's Fables tells the story of a man who took out a deposit from a friend with the intention of keeping it for himself.

Ivan Dmitriev

His poems include songs, odes, satires, tales, epistles, and others, as well as the fables—partly original and partly translated from La Fontaine, Florian and Arnault—on which his fame chiefly rests.

Jean Charles Baquoy

The eldest son of Maurice Baquoy, he engraved book-plates after the designs of Eisen, Gravelot, Moreau, and others, among which are a set of vignettes for the French translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, published by Basan, which are executed in a finished style, and a set of plates, after Jean-Baptiste Oudry, for the Fables of La Fontaine.

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville

After the reinstitution of prior censorship of caricature in 1835, Grandville turned almost exclusively to book illustration, supplying illustrations for various standard works, such as the songs of Béranger, the fables of La Fontaine, Don Quixote, Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe.

Jean Racine

When at last he returned to the theatre, it was at the request of Madame de Maintenon, morganatic second wife of King Louis XIV, with the moral fables, Esther (1689) and Athalie (1691), both of which were based on Old Testament stories and intended for performance by the pupils of the school of the Maison royale de Saint-Louis in Saint-Cyr (a commune neighboring Versailles, and now known as "Saint-Cyr l'École").

Jean-Jacques Boisard

For his part, Jacob Grimm, who was a close friend, considered Boisard's fables as natural and diverse, but sometimes naïve.

As a member of the Royal Academy of Literature (Académie royale des Belles-lettres) of Caen, the first academy established in France after the "Académie française", he started publishing fables in 1764 in the Mercure de France.

John Lydgate

He was a prolific writer of poems, allegories, fables and romances, yet his most famous works were his longer and more moralistic Troy Book, Siege of Thebes and the Fall of Princes.

Kampfgruppe

The formation is most notable for its unusual title, referring to the medieval Persian book of 1001 Nights, a collection of tales and fables.

Lady Diana Beauclerk

Beauclerk illustrated a number of literary productions, including Horace Walpole's tragedy The Mysterious Mother, the English translation of Gottfried August Bürger's Leonora (1796) and The Fables of John Dryden (1797).

Le Bal de Sceaux

In writing this novella Balzac seems to have been inspired by the fables of La Fontaine, especially La fille ("The Girl") and Héron ("The Heron").

Marian Lines

Tam Lin Choral folk fantasy based on the Scottish folk tale and a precursor of the "fables"; Blacksmith and the Changeling and Burd Ellen.

Melita Vovk

She has illustrated numerous children's books and won the Levstik Award twice, in 1957 for her illsutrations for Zgode in nezgode kraljevskega dvora (Tales and Mishaps of the Royal Court) by Milan Šega and in 1965 for her illustrations for three books, Basni (Fables) by Ivan Krylov, Puhek v Benetkah (Puhek in Venice) by Mira Mihelič and Pustov god (Pust's Birthday) by Vera Albreht.

My World and Welcome to It

Fables for Our Time is another source, as when John Monroe sees a unicorn in the back yard, a reference to "The Unicorn in the Garden".

Niko Henrichon

Henrichon's first major work was a graphic novel titled Barnum!, written by Howard Chaykin and David Tischman, but he also did work for Fables, New X-Men, Sandman, and Spider-Man.

Nikolai Erdman

After Stanislavsky's actor Vasily Kachalov thoughtlessly recited Erdman's satirical fables to Stalin during a night party in the Kremlin, their author's fate was sealed.

Odo of Cheriton

The collection contains some seventy-five fables, twenty-six of the from the Aesop corpus, others taken from the Roman writers Seneca, Ovid and Juvenal, from the Medieval writers Petrus Alphonsi, Jacques de Vitry and Stephen of Bourbon, from the Bible and from English folktales.

Samuel Wale

Among them were the illustrations to the ‘History of England,’ 1746–7; ‘The Compleat Angler,’ 1759; ‘London and its Environs described,’ 1761; ‘Ethic Tales and Fables,’ William Wilkie's ‘Fables,’ 1768 (eighteen plates); Henry Chamberlain's ‘History of London,’ 1770; and Oliver Goldsmith's ‘Traveller,’ 1774.

Silvester Harding

They produced also the Memoirs of Count Grammont, 1793; The Economy of Human Life, with plates by Gardiner from designs by Harding, 1795; Gottfried August Bürger's Leonora, translated by William Robert Spencer, 1796, and John Dryden's Fables, 1797, both illustrated with plates from drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk.

The Tortoise and the Birds

An Italian version of Bidpai's fables was early translated into English by Thomas North under the title of The Morall Philosophie of Doni (1570).

The Wolf Among Us

One of the Fables that he frequently contacts is Mr. Toad and his son TJ (Toad Jr.), who live in a run-down apartment building nearby.

He is the sheriff of Fabletown, working presently under interim mayor Ichabod Crane, aided by Snow White and her Magic Mirror in his investigation along with the help of Bufkin the winged monkey that manages Fabletown's records.

As the game opens, the player is introduced to the The Woodsman who lives in the same building as Mr. Toad, and Faith and Prince Lawrence, characters from the Allerleirauh/Donkeyskin fables.

Thomas North

His next work was The Morall Philosophie of Doni (1570), a translation of an Italian collection of eastern fables, popularly known as The Fables of Bidpai.

Tony Akins

Jack of Fables is the spin-off title from writer Bill Willingham's multiple Eisner Award-winning series, Fables.

Tony Akins is an artist, penciling and inking for DC/Vertigo who has contributed to the titles Jack of Fables, Fables,Hellblazer,House of Mystery and is currently drawing alternate issues of Wonder Woman for The New 52 relaunch.

Tortilla Flat

Steinbeck often used myths and themes or biblical stories in his novels: Cup of Gold is a retelling of the myth of Henry Morgan the pirate; Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row employ the King Arthur fables.

Unstable Fables

"Unstable Fables" irreverently and unfaithfully retell classic fairy tales, folktale, and fables with a modern twist.

William Coxe

He also edited Gay's Fables, and wrote a Life of John Gay (Salisbury, 1797), Anecdotes of G. F. Handel and J. C. Smith (London, 1798), and a few other works of minor importance.

William Nelson Gardiner

He worked on their Shakespeare Illustrated, The Economy of Human Life, The Biographical Mirror, The Memoirs of Count de Grammont, Lady Diana Beauclerk's illustrations of John Dryden's Fables and other works.


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