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American writer Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) based her fictional March family and their home on her own childhood in Concord

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Aesop's Fables Manuscripts the opulence and excess ofFor twenty five centuries, the animal stories that go by the name of Aesop's Fables have amused and instructed generations of children and adults alike. The tales are still as fresh and poignant today as they were to the ancient Greeks who composed them. This beautifully illustrated edition contains some of the best loved fables, including "The Boy who Cried Wolf," "The Lion and the Mouse," "The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg," "The Hare and the