The Mountain in Labour
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title:
The Mountain in Labour
text:
The Mountain in Labour is one of Aesop's Fables and appears as number 520 in the Perry Index. The story became proverbial in Classical times and was applied to a variety of situations. It refers to speech acts which promise much but deliver little, especially in literary and political contexts. In more modern times the satirical intention behind the fable was given greater emphasis following Jean de la Fontaine's interpretation of it. Illustrations to the text underlined its ironical application
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Fable by Aesop
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mountain_in_Labour
date created:
2011-02-01T15:36:24Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T07:32:51Z
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