Du Phoenix: 1059 books

The sixth story is of a drunkard, who would confess to the Prior of the Augustines at the Hague, and after his confession said that he was then in a holy state and would die; and believed that his head was cut off and that he was dead, and was carried away by his companions who said they were going to bury him.

How a lawyer's clerk in England deceived his master making him believe that he had no testicles, by which reason he had charge over his mistress both in the country and in the town, and enjoyed his pleasure.

A Wolf and a Fox are living together where the Fox (being the weaker of the two) is forced to do all the hard work for the Wolf. One day, the Wolf makes the Fox get him something to eat, and the Fox says he knows where there are a couple of lambs. The Fox steals a lamb for the Wolf....

A little brother and sister were once playing by a well...

Twelve servants who had done nothing all the day would not exert themselves at night either, but laid themselves on the grass and boasted of their idleness... 

There was once a rich old man who had two sons, and as his wife was dead, the elder lived with him, and helped him to look after his property. For a long time all went well; the young man got up very early in the morning, and worked hard all day, and at the end of every week his father...

Once long ago, it was foretold that a king's son would be killed by a stag at the age of sixteen. When the prince was sixteen, he went hunting and chased a stag; a great man, a king, caught him and carried him off. The king set him to watch his three daughters; one each night...

There was once upon a time a poor woman who had one little daughter called 'Parsley.' She was so called because she liked eating parsley better than any other food, indeed she would hardly eat anything else. Her poor mother hadn't enough money always to be buying parsley for her, but the child was so beautiful that she could refuse her nothing...

A breezy tale showing the crookedness of the methods of prize-ring managers specially in fleecing the prize-ring public in betting. The hero is a successful young giant who has been trained by his father in the mountains, and who thinks the game is played square until enlightened by a young woman reporter. Then follows a whirlwind wooing, exposing of the frauds and retirement...

Once upon a time there was a king who had an only son. When the lad was about eighteen years old his father had to go to fight in a war against a neighbouring country, and the king led his troops in person. He bade his son act as Regent in his absence, but ordered him on no account to marry till his return...

Far way, in a very hot country, there once lived a man and woman who had two children, a son named Koane and a daughter called Thakane. Early in the morning and late in the evenings the parents worked hard in the fields, resting, when the sun was high, under the shade of some tree....

Ésope est un écrivain grec d'origine phrygienne, à qui on attribue la paternité de la fable comme littérature ou genre littéraire. Cette petite fable , comme la tradition le veut , se termine par une morale instructive . 

Ésope est un écrivain grec d'originephrygienne, à qui on attribue la paternité de la fable comme littérature ou genre littéraire. Cette petite fable est accompagnée d'une morale.

Ésope est un écrivain grec d'originephrygienne, à qui on attribue la paternité de la fable comme littérature ou genre littéraire. Cette petite fable comporte comme celles de La Fontaine une morale propre à l'instruction .