apologue
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This reading of Louis and Claudia’s lineage allows writer Hannah Moscovitch to transform a station along the characters’ development track into an apologue about war and misery.
From Salon ● May 13, 2024
As often as this apologue is repeated, I still catch myself questioning its accuracy: Does the culture not prefer to hold people endlessly responsible for past indiscretions?
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 25, 2016
The apologue seizes on that which man has in common with creatures below him, and the parable on that which he has in common with God.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
"It was, I believe, about this time, apropos of this game of which the origin is either Arabian or Chinese, that my apologue obtained the honours of print."
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William
It is noteworthy that the two fathers of apologue in the West were slaves, namely Aesop and Phaedrus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
