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New Aesop Fables Color Illustrated Edition

New Aesop Fables Color Illustrated Edition

New Aesop Fables Color Illustrated Edition

Robert Long

38,74 €
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Editorial:
Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2005
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781411652545
38,74 €
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These new Aesopian fables expand on the themes that Aesop wrote about and now concern the issues, vices, and virtues of this century. These one hundred fables, which involve animals, insects, people, and objects, touch on a variety of social, moral and even political themes that are particularly relevant to this time.

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