Reading Experience Database Browse Author Writings Aesop

√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	'I faintly remember going through Aesop's Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember be...	John Stuart Mill	Aesop	Fables	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w...	Joseph Stamper	Aesop	Fables	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So home and read to my wife a Fable or two in Ogleby's "Aesop"; and so to supper and then to prayers and to bed'	Samuel Pepys	Aesop	Aesop's Fables	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosis...	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Aesop	Fables	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The e...	John Buckley Castieau	Aesop	Fables	Print: Book