The Hare and the Tortoise

by Aesop

For works with similar titles, see Hare and Tortoise.

English-language translations of Χελώνη και λαγωός include:

Illustration by Arthur Rackham, from Æsop's fables: A New Translation (1912)

Direct translations

• "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

• "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

• "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)

See also

• Hare and Tortoise