The Life, the Universe, and Everything
By W. Somerset Maugham
When I was a very small boy I was made to learn by heart certain of the fables of La Fontaine, and the moral of each was carefully explained to me. Among those I learnt was The Ant and the Grasshopper, which is devised to bring home to the young the useful [...]
By Igor Shchegolev
There are many opinions about the question, “Why don’t people work?”
Aesop’s famous fable clearly illustrates what the result of not working is. The ant and grasshopper are opposites in that one of them doesn’t want to work. People of many generations have accepted the moral of Aesop’s fable as the rule.
According t Aesop’s [...]
By Donald Hall (1928 – )
When we learn to read fiction, we acquire pleasure and a resource we never lose. Although literary study is impractical in one sense – few people make their living reading books – in another sense it is almost as practical as breathing. Literature records and embodies centuries of human thought [...]
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