The phrase "a fable which" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a specific fable that is being described or discussed in more detail.
Example: "The story of the tortoise and the hare is a fable which teaches the value of perseverance and patience."
Alternatives: "a fable that" or "a fable demonstrating".
Mr. Doctorow's novel is written in coolly compassionate declarative sentences that give it the manner of a fable, which the musical also has.
PORTFOLIO: A FABLE, which is a twenty-five page color photography spread showing model Nadja Auermann posed with a skeleton, both wearing different outfits by a variety of designers (des:).
Referring to several incidents of journalistic dishonesty among American journalists, British activist writer George Monbiot noted: "When they are faced with a choice between a fable which helps the Republicans [in government at the time the article was written, in 2005], and a reality which hurts them, they choose the fable".
By Richard Avedon The New Yorker, November 6 , 1995P. 130 PORTFOLIO: A FABLE, which is a twenty-five page color photography spread showing model Nadja Auermann posed with a skeleton, both wearing different outfits by a variety of designers (des:).
She admitted that she had never really read George Eliot, though in high school she had made it through "Silas Marner"—a fable in which a miserly, reclusive weaver is robbed of the gold he has been hoarding, and is then redeemed by his adoption of a golden-haired orphan.
Joshua's journey of discovery unfolds as a haunting fable which lyrically celebrates the healing power of nature.
Typical American tourists of the time, you presume, noting the guidebook in his hand, but this is a Patricia Highsmith fable, which means that you would be wrong.
A revealing fable which uses the otter to demonstrate some of the silliest human behaviour, illustrated by the inimitable Ms Hedderwick.
How amazing to be able to show people Rubens's painting The Lion and the Mouse depicting an Aesop fable – which Winston Churchill "improved" one night, with his paints on a stepladder, by highlighting the mouse.
How to tell a more humane story than the vengeful ideologies on offer, how to create a milder myth, a less brutal fable, which can nevertheless inspire and animate?
He made Broadway at last in 1944, with The Man Who Had All The Luck, a hubristically named fable which closed after four performances.
