Perry Index Perry Index The Perry Index is a widely used index of "Aesop's Fables" or "Aesopica", the fables credited to Aesop, the storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. Modern scholarship takes the view that Aesop probably did not compose all of the fables attributed to him; indeed, a few are known to have first been used before Aesop lived, while the first record we have of many others is from well over a millennium after his time. Traditionally, Aesop's fables were arranged alphabetically, which is not helpful to the reader. B. E. Perry listed them by
Storyteller (Silko book) most commonly anthologized stories from "Storyteller" are "Yellow Woman", "Lullaby" and "Tony's Story". It is one of her best-known works, alongside "Ceremony" and "Almanac of the Dead". The format and writing style featured in "Storyteller" would influence some of Silko's later works such as "Sacred Water" (1993) and "Rain" (1997). "Storyteller" has received several critical studies including: Storyteller (Silko book) Storyteller is a hybrid collection of poetry, short stories and family photographs compiled by Laguna Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko. It was first published in 1981 following the literary success of the novel Ceremony. "Storyteller" is a collection of short