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Fables

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thumb|200px|Anthropomorphism|Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphised, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson, which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying.

collection of fables credited to Aesop

thumb|The first page of oldest surviving Panchatantra text in Sanskrit thumb|An 18th-century Pancatantra manuscript page in Braj ("The Talkative Turtle")

The Three Little Pigs

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

story by Richard Bach

The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

2006 novel by John Boyne

1923 book with 26 prose poetry fables by Kahlil Gibran

Kalila and Demna

collection of fables

Schleicher's fable

text composed in a reconstructed version of the Proto-Indo-European language, published by August Schleicher in 1868

blind men and an elephant

parable from the ancient Indian subcontinent, in which several blind men feel and try to conceptualize an elephant

Reynard the Fox

cycle of Old French fables

The Scorpion and the Frog

fable that vicious people often hurt others despite their self-interest

European folk story

La Fontaine's Fables

collection of fables assembled by Jean de La Fontaine

The Tortoise and the Eagle

various fables, including Aesop's

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

children's novel by Charles Kingsley

Tongue-Cut Sparrow

traditional Japanese fable telling of a kind old man, his avaricious wife and an injured sparrow

The Deer Without a Heart

The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

fable shared with bible, attributed to Aesop

The Crab and the Monkey

Japanese folk story

The Hawk and the Nightingale

The Miller, His Son and the Donkey

fable, falsely attributed to Aesop

upright=1.35|thumb|Ysengrimus, from a 12th-century MS in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

The Little Red Hen

La Laitiere et le Pot au Lait

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse

illustrated philosophy book by Charlie Mackesy

The Dog in the Manger

fable falsely ascribed to Aesop

The Crow and the Fox

fable by Ivan Krylov

The Fox and the Cat

fable attributed to Aesop

The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountain

Chinese parable

The Man of Forty Crowns

fictional work by Voltaire

The Brahmin and the Mongoose

Indian folktale

The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal

Indian fairy tale

index of Aesop's Fables

Gon, the Little Fox

Japanese children's story

The Trees and the Bramble

Dialogus creaturarum

medieval Latin fable collection

The Marzbān-nāma () is an early 13th-century Persian prose work. It consists of "various didactic stories and fables used as illustrations of morality and right conduct", and belongs to the "mirror for princes" literary genre. It was written in 1210–1225 by Sa'ad al-Din Varavini, under the patronage of Abu'l-Qasem Harun, the vizier of the Eldiguzid ruler (atabeg) Muzaffar al-Din Uzbek (1210–1225).

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Krylov's Fables

fables by Ivan Krylov

short story by Franz Kafka

The Animals Stricken with The Plague

fable in La Fontaine's Fables

list of Panchatantra Stories

Wikimedia list article

Prince Saiful Malook and Badri Jamala

collection of animal fables compiled in Spain in the 13th century

The Boy and the Filberts

The Priest and the Wolf

The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant

2005 short story by Nick Bostrom

Out of the frying pan into the fire

phrase originating from a 15th-century fable

The Blind Man and the Lame

Chanticleer and the Fox

fable dating from the Middle Ages

An Ass Eating Thistles

fable attributed to Aesop

book by Voltaire