Samaniego's Fables.

Félix María de Samaniego is Spain's great fabulist — the verses Spanish schoolchildren memorise, sharp and musical and short. For a learner, that brevity is gold: each fable is a complete piece of real Spanish literature you can finish, understand and remember in minutes.

This collection gathers forty of his best-known fables, organised by theme, with a literal English gloss beneath every line of Spanish and a brief reflection on each fable's meaning. Public-domain engravings from historic nineteenth-century editions give the volume its classic character.