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fable
short fictional story that anthropomorphises non-humans to illustrate a moral lesson
Details
- Instance of
- literary genre
- Subclass of
- allegorical story, folk tale
- described by source
- Otto's encyclopedia, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1, Pauly–Wissowa, Basque Literature Terms Dictionary
- different from
- story, fabel, beast fable
- intended public
- child
- practiced by
- fabulist
- topic's main category
- Category:Fables
Creators in this collection (17)
Works in this collection (18)
Connected on Wikidata
Subject of
- An argosy of fables
- The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484
- The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484
- The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484
- Das Ei des Columbus
- Fables of the Great
- Bajka
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Fable
- Fabel (Pauly-Wissowa)
- Kallila iyo dimna
- The Famous Tommy Thumb’s Little Story‐book
- Fable