A moral fable in the form of a bedroom farce, it must not be taken either too lightly or too seriously.

Does the moral fable of Narnia offer any way to resolve these religious differences over Christmas?

A moral fable about community, fear and the love of a big cat.

As a moral fable it outdoes even Robert the Bruce and the spider.

The title character, also called the Gaviero, or lookout, becomes an actor in contemporary moral fables.

Good Hearts' is a moral fable about the near destruction but rescue of a marriage," he says.

After hearing the story, the son subverts the fable's moral with a pun.

In any case moral fables have to be very carefully constructed, or they may prove dangerous to those who use them.

And as a moral fable about honesty, it's completely weightless.

Or is he simply a Mephistophelean construct in a contemporary moral fable?