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Selected Fables

Author : Jean de La Fontaine

Publisher : Courier Corporation

Page : 68 pages

File Size : 43,96 MB

Release : 2000-01-01

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 9780486411064

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With their unique blend of wit and poetic mastery, the verse interpretations of Aesop’s Fables by 17th-century author Jean de La Fontaine have enchanted readers of all ages for over three centuries. 70 popular and oft-quoted fables appear here, including "The Grasshopper and the Ant," "The Town Rat and the Country Rat," "The Fox and the Grapes," "The Hare and the Tortoise," and dozens more. A classic of French literature; brilliantly translated by Walter Thornbury into English verse.



The Complete Fables of La Fontaine

Author : Jean de la Fontaine

Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Page : 483 pages

File Size : 13,89 MB

Release : 2011-11

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1611453445

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Originally written to entertain the young son of King Louis XIV, this illustrated collector's edition of the author's classic work presents Aesop's fables and other moral tales in poem form whose characters also depict French society at the time.



The Fables of La Fontaine

Author : Jean de La Fontaine

Publisher :

Page : 428 pages

File Size : 25,53 MB

Release : 1884

Category : Aesop's fables

ISBN :

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Fables of La Fontaine

Author : Jean de La Fontaine

Publisher : Courier Corporation

Page : 84 pages

File Size : 11,12 MB

Release : 2012-11-21

Category : Art

ISBN : 0486498476

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A heavily illustrated reprint of a 1927 edition of La Fontaine's fables contains the original French verses and new English translations of such tales as "The Crow and the Fox" and "The Heron."



The Complete Fables of Jean de la Fontaine

Author : Jean de La Fontaine

Publisher :

Page : 720 pages

File Size : 21,46 MB

Release : 2018-10-15

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ISBN : 9780810139633

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This edition of Jean de La Fontaine's fables includes an English translation published alongside the French text. Norman Spector adapted the French text from the 1883-85 edition by Henri Régnier, adding four tales from the 1962 edition by Georges Couton. Spector's translation is in rhymed verse, and remains faithful to the original not only in metrical patterns and rhyme schemes but also in tone: wit and le mot juste are skillfully and wonderfully combined. This translation gives the reader of English a chance to enjoy the grace, wit, and versatility of La Fontaine.



The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine

Author : Jean de La Fontaine

Publisher : Sleeping Cat Press

Page : 140 pages

File Size : 40,43 MB

Release : 2014-11-01

Category : Fables, French

ISBN : 9780991440771

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Charming and elegant, Jean de La Fontaine's (1621-1695) animal fables depict sly foxes and scheming cats, vain birds and greedy wolves, all of which subtly express his penetrating insights into French society and the beasts found in all of us.



The Original Fables of La Fontaine

Author : Jean de La Fontaine

Publisher : Aegypan

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 35,20 MB

Release : 2008-02

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781603124775

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"The world is old, they say. Well, so it is! But it is as greedy for amusement as a child!" The Happy Cobbler and his sad neighbor the Financier -- the Mouse in the Moon -- the Elephant and the Rat . . . Jean de La Fontaine found inspiration for his fables high and low, in society and nature, in history and fancy. Born in Champagne, France, in 1621, La Fontaine published the fables that would grant him literary immortality in a series of books beginning in 1668, with the last appearing the year before his death in 1695. Their magic is nowhere more evident than here, in "The Original Fables."



One Hundred Fables (1906)

Author : Jean de La Fontaine

Publisher : Kessinger Publishing

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 26,49 MB

Release : 2008-10-01

Category : Law

ISBN : 9781437078152

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Book Description

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.



Fifty Fables of La Fontaine

Author : Jean de La Fontaine

Publisher : University of Illinois Press

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 44,79 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 9780252066498

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Presents fifty verse fables by seventeenth-century poet Jean de La Fontaine in side-by-side French and English.



The Fables of La Fontaine

Author : Jean de la Fontaine

Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB

Page : 855 pages

File Size : 19,88 MB

Release : 2021-01-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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The Fables by Jean de La Fontaine are considered classics of French literature. Collecting fables from a variety of sources, La Fontaine then adapted them into verse. Consisting of twelve books and 239 fables in all, these were originally aimed at adults, but have since been taught to children as a way to educate them in morals. At times they have been mixed in with the fables of Aesop. The sources for the fables are wide ranging, from Aesop to Boccaccio, from Babrius to Machiavelli - even drawing at times from ancient Indian collections of tales. Full chapter list. № 72 in Anne Haight's List of Banned Books.