"My greatest regret is not dedicating the book to you," Saint-Exupéry wrote after completing his fable while in American exile, during a reconciliation with his estranged wife.
Thirty-nine-year-old Carlyle's latest endeavour is There's Only One Jimmy Grimble, a gentle urban fable charting the journey of a lonely Manchester City fan from playground punchbag for the rival Reds to schools' cup final hero.
Tinder by Sally Gardner (Indigo), looks at the folly of war through a reworking of Hans Christian Andersen's fable of the Tinderbox.
If this fable is typical of the communication agency's strategic advice then Campbell would do well to think twice before accepting it.
Crane narrates his sonnet-sized fable in broad strokes, but the psychological insight is subtle.
In Leonid Brezhnev's Soviet Union, when overt criticism of Stalin and Stalinism was no longer allowed, Burlatsky published an entire book about Mao Zedong and China, which, as his more discerning readers knew, was in reality a sort of Aesopian fable about Stalin and the Soviet Union.
But, as well as two-thirds of his title, Morgan has borrowed from Böll the structure and tone of a dark moral fable or fairytale.
Adapted from Michel Faber's 2001 novel, Glazer's film is a bizarre fable of lust and loneliness, casting 28-year-old Johansson as a vampire alien in search of fresh blood.
To be sure, there's something of a parallel between the fable of IRS's vindictiveness against Tea Party groups and NSA surveillance.
However, like a true fable for the meme age, In Touch got its comeuppance when it was discovered that its Jenner masterpiece was actually a doctored image of Dynasty actor Stephanie Beacham.
Democratic fingers are crossed that Republicans will show similar ineptitude in 2014.For their part Republicans look at Obamacare's continuing woes and see a delicious fable about the incompetence of a presidential team they scorn as callow, insular and obsessed with politics above policy.
