The Hare and the Tortoise
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For works with similar titles, see Hare and Tortoise.
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Direct translations
[edit]- "A Hare and a Tortoiſe", translated by Roger L'Estrange, in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692)
- "The Hare and the Tortoise", translated by George Fyler Townsend, illustrated by Harrison Weir, in Three Hundred Æsop's Fables (1867)
- "The Hare and the Tortoise", translated by Joseph Jacobs, edited by Joseph Jacobs, illustrated by Richard Heighway, in The Fables of Æsop (1894)
- "The Hare and the Tortoise", translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, in Æsop's fables: A New Translation (1912)
Translations via La Fontaine
[edit]- "The Hare and the Tortoise" in Fables, translated by Elizur Wright (1881)
- "The Hare and the Tortoise" in An argosy of fables, translated by Paul Hookham (1921)
Other translations and retellings
[edit]- "The true history of the hare and the tortoise" retold in Fifty-one Tales by Lord Dunsany (1915).
- "The Persevering Tortoise and the Pretentious Hare", parody version by Guy Wetmore Carryl (1898)