The best fables of the world. Ed. Kuzmin V.V.

"... The world that we find in the fable is a pure mirror in which the human world is reflected," this is how Vasily Zhukovsky described the fable at the beginning of the 19th century. Readers of any age. It is not surprising, because it goes back to the wonderful legends of primitive times, unusually popular in cultures of various nations.

The greatest fabric of antiquity was the Greek Aesop (c. 600s BC). From the Greeks, the fables moved to the peoples of Europe and Asia, were translated and remade in all languages, until in Russia this genre was brought to brilliant perfection Ivan Krylov (1769–1844). - This is the main property of this “pure mirror” that helps a person look at his imperfections.