Selected Fables
Selected Fables
$30.71
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
10 May 2006
Summary
La Fontaine’s Fables popularized some of our most loved proverbial tales, including The Hare and the Tortoise and The Hen Who Laid Golden Eggs.
Jean de la Fontaine (1621-95) freely plundered the works of Aesop, Phaedrus, Bidpai and others to transform the world’s great fables into charming poems of astonishing originality, wit and verve. Here he depicts lions, frogs, donkeys, rats, insects, birds and wily foxes in situations that reveal the quirks, follies and frailt…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140455243 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140455248 |
| Author: | Jean de la Fontaine, James Michie, J.J. Grandville, Geoffrey Grigson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 10 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 224g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) French poet, whose FABLES rank among the masterpieces of world literature. His FABLES CHOISIES MISES EN VERS, usually called ‘La Fontaine Fables’, were published over the last 25 years of his life. The first volume appeared when the author was 47. The book includes some 240 poems and timeless stories of countryfolk, heroes from Greek mythology, and familiar beasts from the fables of Aesop.
James Michie was born in 1927. His publications include translations of The Odes of Horace, The Poems of Catullus and The Epigrams of Martial.
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