The fable is one of the very early forms of literary writing. As a form it has fascinated writers down the ages from Aesop who lived in 620-564 B.C., the Renaissance writers to the present day fabulists. The book examines the animal stories of five modern writers: Kipling’s Jungle Books, De La Mare’s The Three Royal Monkeys, Orwell’s Animal Farm, James Thurber’s Fables and Further Fables For Our Times and Richard Adams’ Watershp Down, The Plague Dogs ...
