As the gravedigger tells his wife how a band of cats marched into the cemetery to mourn their dead king, their own cat, Old Tom,listens with a strange intensity.

Balthasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) assumed his final vows of the Jesuits in 1635, having been raised by his uncle, a priest, and studying theology in Zaragoza, Spain. Gracián became quite famous as a preacher, and wrote a number of literary works concerning politics, practical advice for life, and philosophy. Today he is known as the most representative writer of the Spanish baroque style called Conceptismo (Conceptism), a literary style characterized...

A young man believes his sweetheart and her family are the three silliest people in the world until he meets three others who are even sillier.

Only one of the three pig brothers survives the hazardous experience of building a house.

Adaptations of eighty-two of Aesop's best known fables. Includesa brief history of the fables.

Retells the traditional English tale of how poor, neglected Tattercoats comes to marry the Prince.

A Johnny-cake escapes the oven and outruns man and beast but meets his match in the wily fox.