Joseph Jacobs

Adaptations of eighty-two of Aesop's best known fables. Includes a brief history of the fables.

A young man believes his sweetheart and her family are the three silliest people in the world until he meets three others who are even sillier.

A fine round cake escapes from the oven and eludes man and beast until it meets its match in the wily fox.

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