📚 Fables

Beasts with morals: Aesop’s line and every retelling that thought it knew better.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject fables in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Metamorphoses	Ovid	1479	501
	Fables	Jean de La Fontaine	1678	345
	The English Tongue	Thomas Dilworth	1740	198
	The light princess	George MacDonald	1926	176
	Fables	Aesop	1489	109
	Parables from nature	Margaret Gatty	1855	92
	Aesop's Fables	Aesop	1848	91
	Fables	John Gay	1727	87
	The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari	Robin S. Sharma	1996	58
	Animal Farm / Nineteen Eighty-Four	George Orwell	1949	48
	La oveja negra y demás fábulas	Augusto Monterroso	1969	40
	Fables	Arnold Lobel	1980	30
	Fables choisies	Louis Chambaud	1751	26
	Fables for the female sex	Edward Moore	1744	23
	Select fables of Aesop and other fabulists	Robert Dodsley	1761	17
	Fabulae Aesopeae	Babrius.	1845	17
	Andy and the lion	James Daugherty	1938	16
	Aesop's fables for children	Milo Winter	1987	16
	The Pancatantra	Visnu Sarma	2001	16
	Fábulas en verso castellano	Félix María de Samaniego	1900	15
	Chanticleer and the fox	Barbara Cooney	1958	15
	The rich man and the shoe-maker	Jean de La Fontaine	1965	15
	Aesop's Fables	S. A. Handford	1924	14
	Fábulas literarias	Tomás de Iriarte	1796	13
	The Missing Piece Meets the Big O	Shel Silverstein	1981	12
	Aesop's fables	Jerry Pinkney	1994	12
	The Wonderful O	James Thurber	1957	11
	Fables & Reflections	Neil Gaiman	1993	11
	Squids will be squids	Jon Scieszka	1998	11
	Hope for the Flowers	Trina Paulus	1972	10

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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