Enter the spell-binding world of two jackals, Kalila and Dimna, and their animal friends and enemies as they transport you through wonderful adventures and prickly predicaments. These animal and human characters are clever and doltish, fortunate and hapless, diligent and indolent, simple-minded and cunning, avaricious and magnanimous, and everything in between. The highly influential stories in this simplified version are easy enough for children to understand yet valuable enough for adults to appreciate. In the last couple of centuries several versions of these fables have been published in...