Author : Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0199650721
La Fontaine's witty and sophisticated animal fables are among the greatest poetic works in French. Christopher Betts's new translations match the inventiveness of the original. This generous selection, including half of the originals, is accompanied by superb illustrations by Gustave Doré, a contextualizing introduction and other features.
Author : Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486411064
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.
Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466834951
In her preface to Robert Walser's Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett." The more common comparison is to "a comic Kafka." Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing. Walser is one of the twentieth century's great modern masters—revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse to W. G. Sebald—and Selected Stories gives the fullest display of his talent. "He is most at home in the mode of short fiction," according to J. M. Coetzee in The New York Review of Books. The stories "show him at his dazzling best."
Author : Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher :
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Fables, French
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Author : Eliezer Steinbarg
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2003-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Individual fables by Yiddish poet and writer Shtaynbarg (1880-1932) have appeared in various English anthologies, and there is a thriving critique of his work in Yiddish, but Leviant (Hebrew and Yiddish, Rutgers U.) offers the first collection in English devoted to his work, with the Yiddish on facing pages. The fables, one to three pages long, elevate interactions between mundane objects, animals, or people into spiritual encounters. They draw on the ancient tradition of Hebrew fables. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Aesop
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781853261282
A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
Author : William Stanley Merwin
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 38,60 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1556592566
Restoring to print 400 pages of W.S. Merwin's enigmatic and gorgeous fables.
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Publisher : Groundwood Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Aesop's fables
ISBN : 9780888995735
A retelling of 15 of Aesop's fables and five other famous stories.
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Page : pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
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Author : Phaedrus
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 1894
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