Boris Karloff Reads AESOP'S FABLES LP Rare Stories Compilation 1967 Caedmon USA

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American import 1st release of 'Aesop's Fables' (1967), read by classic horror actor Boris Karloff.

Boris Karloff ?– Aesop's Fables (1967)

Condition (refer also to notes at bottom):
Vinyl – EX. Clean on visual inspection. No marks or scratches. A decent example.
Outer sleeve (Cover) – EX. Colours are unfaded. A few minor nicks in the corners and slight edge wear. Left cprner is slightly bent and dented but both sides are wonderfully clean. Very fine.
Inner Sleeve – EX. Original. Cream paper with rounded edges. Minor folding and creasing. Intact.

Label: Caedmon Records ?– TC 1221
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Import
Country: US
Released: 1967
Genre: Children's, Spoken Word
Style: Story, Soundtrack, Non-music

Track listing:
A1  The Ant And The Grasshopper - The Fox And The Lion - The Oak And The Reed - The Wolf And The Crane - The Vain Jackdaw     
A2  The Mountain In Labour - The Old Hound - The Cock And The Jewel - The Man And The Satyr - The Flies And The Honeypot - Mercury And The Woodman     
A3  The Tortoise And The Eagle - The Shepherd Boy And The Wolf - The Ass And The Grasshopper - The Fox And The Goat - The Hare And The Tortoise - The Frog And The Ox - The Fox And The Grapes - The Dog And The Shadow     
A4  The Crow And The Pitcher - The Country Mouse And The Town Mouse     

B1  The Travellers And The Bear - The Gnat And The Bull - The Lion And His Three Counsellors - The Eagle And The Arrow - The Wind And The Sun     
B2  The Mice In Council - The Lion In Love - The Hare And The Hound - The One Eyed Doe     
B3  Hercules And The Wagoner - The Lioness - The Angler And The Little Fish - The Farmer And His Sons - The Country Maid And Her Milk Can     
B4  The Thief And His Mother - The Goose With The Golden Eggs - The Old Man And Death - The Boy Bathing - Venus And The Cat - The Boys And The Frogs - The Miller, His Son And Their Ass


Directed By – Howard Sackler
Read By – Boris Karloff


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About Aesop’s Fables:

Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media.

The Greek historian Herodotus mentioned in passing that "Aesop the fable writer" was a slave who lived in Ancient Greece during the 5th century BCE.[1] Among references in other writers, Aristophanes, in his comedy The Wasps, represented the protagonist Philocleon as having learnt the "absurdities" of Aesop from conversation at banquets; Plato wrote in Phaedo that Socrates whiled away his jail time turning some of Aesop's fables "which he knew" into verses. Nonetheless, for two main reasons– because numerous morals within Aesop's attributed fables contradict each other, and because ancient accounts of Aesop's life contradict each other – the modern view is that Aesop did not solely compose all those fables attributed to him, if he even existed at all.Instead, any fable tended to be ascribed to the name of Aesop if there was no known alternative literary source.

In Classical times there were various theorists who tried to differentiate these fables from other kinds of narration. They had to be short and unaffected; in addition, they are fictitious, useful to life and true to nature.

In them could be found talking animals and plants, although humans interacting only with humans figure in a few. Typically they might begin with a contextual introduction, followed by the story, often with the moral underlined at the end. Setting the context was often necessary as a guide to the story's interpretation, as in the case of the political meaning of The Frogs Who Desired a King and The Frogs and the Sun.

Sometimes the titles given later to the fables have become proverbial, as in the case of 'Killing the Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs or the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. In fact some fables, such as The Young Man and the Swallow, appear to have been invented as illustrations of already existing proverbs. One theorist, indeed, went so far as to define fables as extended proverbs.[6] In this they have an aetiological function, the explaining of origins such as, in another context, why the ant is a mean, thieving creature. Other fables, also verging on this function, are outright jokes, as in the case of The Old Woman and the Doctor, aimed at greedy practitioners of medicine.


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