Aesop's Fables, Part One
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Aesop's Fables, Part One

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 25, 202626 min
  • One speaker
  • Fiction & stories

How can ancient, anthropomorphized animals possibly be relevant today? Aesop's Fables, today on The Classic Tales Podcast. Welcome to The Classic Tales Podcast, where an audiobook approach delivers an immersive experience in classic literature. I'm your host BJ Harrison. I'm glad you could join us. Unlimited everything. With a monthly donation of $9.99 or more, that's what you get. Unlimited access to everything I've recorded for the last 19 years. These are the same titles found on Audible, Spotify, and elsewhere. They already have thousands of five-star ratings. Many have won awards. And...

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Today's episode features an author I've wanted to do since I started this show nearly 20 years ago. I just couldn't figure out how to work ESOP

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into the lineup. There are so many different translations and additions I simply never found the right one. Then, as I was researching Somerset Maugham,

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I ran across a reference to the title of one of his books, Cakes and Dale. Maugham's Cakes and Dale is a novel exposing the wrongs of societal snobbery.

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