Fables travel well, in both space and time: because they feature animals, they are timeless and universal. George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) might be considered a modern and extended adaptation ...

Like the even more celebrated "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949), Orwell's "Animal Farm" — marking its 80th anniversary this month — is a political broadside.

Fables are stories that distill complex truths into simple, memorable narratives. By using animals or everyday objects as ...

Several chapters into Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables, zoologist and science writer Jo Wimpenny explains that, as a very young girl, she sometimes wanted to be a dog.

The present article offers an analysis of the Sulwān al-muṭāʿ fī ʿudwān al-atbāʿ (Waters of Comfort or Consolation for the Ruler during the Hostility of Subjects) by Ibn Ẓafar al-Ṣiqillī (1104-1170 or ...

It is a striking collection of animal fables from perhaps around 300 C.E. in which birds, lions and others speak and reason as humans do.

DENVER — At the Denver Art Museum, a new exhibition, Stampede: Animals in Art, presents close to 300 objects linked to the world of animals.

Fables travel well, in both space and time: because they feature animals, they are timeless and universal. George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) might be considered a modern and extended adaptation ...