Aesop's fables have long been read by children and adults alike, and this Gunasena edition gathers them in versions translated from the Greek and Latin originals. The stories carry their moral counsel plainly, but they are also funny, and the translation keeps both — the advice and the mischief — rather than smoothing the fables into bare lessons.
The work is credited to D.R. Ponnamperuma and Merlyne Peiris, and is listed as being in English and Sinhala.
This is not a new book. It was in the Gunasena list some years ago, and has been brought back for readers in a fresh setting: the type has been reset and the pages newly laid out. The text is the same body of fables as before; what has changed is how it reads on the page.
M. D. Gunasena & Co. is a long-standing Sri Lankan publisher and bookseller, with a list that runs across schoolbooks, general reading and children's titles in Sinhala and English. Fables of this kind sit naturally in that list — they are among the first stories many Sri Lankan children meet in print, at home and in the classroom, and they tend to be returned to later.
Suitable for a household bookshelf, for reading aloud, and for anyone who wants Aesop in a straightforward edition from a familiar Colombo house.
- Author: D.R. Ponnamperuma, Merlyne Peiris
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: English, Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552108631
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