The Top 100 Aesop's Fables (Children-Youth)

The fable is at the very origin of literature, presenting the narrative element and the blend of imagination and plausibility that every good story needs. Moreover, in a short space, it is able to convey a message; it serves a cultural and educational function. In all cultural traditions around the world, there are fables and short stories with a moral or a lesson, however, it is Aesop who is the most famous writer of apologues, who with his wit and literary talent left us with a countless number of stories that later influenced education and literature in the Western world from ancient times to today. As a literary genre, the fable is characterized by being a short tale written in prose or verse and having a moral or educational purpose. In Aesop's stories, the main focus is not the doctrine but the moral lesson, satire, wit, and pragmatism, which determine the interpretation of the text. That is why in this selection we present, of his top 100 fables, we have chosen to eliminate the moral, to give the texts more contemporaneity and readers the possibility to interpret them in multiple senses.

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