The Complete Fables Of Jean De La Fontaine
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The Complete Fables Of Jean De La Fontaine
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Author : Jean La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2010-10-01
The Complete Fables Of Jean De La Fontaine written by Jean La Fontaine and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Inspired new translations of the work of one of the world's greatest fabulists Told in an elegant style, Jean de la Fontaine's (1621-95) charming 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. Norman R. Shapiro has been translating La Fontaine's fables for over twenty years, capturing the original work's lively mix of plain and archaic language. This newly complete translation is destined to set the English standard for this work. Awarded the Lewis Galantière Prize by the American Translators Association, 2008.
The Complete Fables Of Jean De La Fontaine
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Author : Jean de La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Complete Fables Of Jean De La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Fables, English categories.
"The English-speaking reader will typically find selections of translated fables by La Fontaine (1621-1695), and a large number of those stray rather far from the original in an effort to retain the poetic flavor of the genre. Other translations, treating the fables as reading matter for followers of Winnie the Pooh, do not retain the subtle overtones and wit intended, in fact, for educated adults. This translation remains extraordinarily 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 is no small achievement, and we can now enjoy the grace, wit, and versatility of an author whose literary qualities were, until now, evident only in the original."-- Danielle Mihram, New York University Library.
The Complete Fables Of La Fontaine
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Author : Jean de la Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-09-15
The Complete Fables Of La Fontaine written by Jean de la Fontaine and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-15 with Fiction categories.
In this wonderful, vigorously contemporary translation, Craig Hill has captured the liveliness, satiric wit, and poetic beauty that made Jean de la Fontaine famous during his lifetime and his Fables celebrated as a masterwork of world literature ever since. Despite la Fontaine’s deceptively modest claim that all he intended was to put the moral tales of Aesop and other ancient fabulists into poetry for the pleasure of Louis XIV’s young son, his real accomplishment, as later generations have understood, was holding a mirror up to the society of his day and, in the process, fashioning a work that has become a classic. Borrowing from a variety of sources, la Fontaine gave the hitherto mute animals in ancient fables the power of speech. Backstabbing politicians, brainless nincompoops, charlatans, clueless heads of state, egomaniacs, empty-headed celebrities, foolish investors, gluttons, liars, penny–pinchers, self-important blowhards, and wastrels—these are the targets of la Fontaine’s pen. In this beautifully bound collector’s edition, Craig Hill has given us a rare treat: both the irreverent spirit and the vivid poetry that have made la Fontaine’s fables beloved through the ages, continuing to amuse and inspire centuries after they ?rst appeared in print.
Complete Tales In Verse
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Author : Jean de La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2001
Complete Tales In Verse written by Jean de La Fontaine and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Collections categories.
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Fables Of La Fontaine
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Author : Jean de La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-02-15
The Fables Of La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-15 with categories.
The Fables of La Fontaine by Jean de La FontaineTranslated from the French by Elizur Wright.With Notes by J. W. M. Gibbs.Complete 12 BooksThe Fables of Jean de La Fontaine were issued in several volumes from 1668 to 1694. They are classics of French literature.The first six books, collected in 1668, were in the main adapted from the classical fabulists Aesop, Babrius and Phaedrus. In these, La Fontaine adhered to the path of his predecessors with some closeness; but in the later collections he allowed himself far more liberty and in the later books there is a wider range of sources.The first edition of this translation of La Fontaine's Fables appeared in Boston, U.S., in 1841. It achieved a considerable success, and six editions were printed in three years. Since then it has been allowed to pass out of print, except in the shape of a small-type edition produced in London immediately after the first publication in Boston, and the present publishers have thought that a reprint in a readable yet popular form would be generally acceptable.
Selected Fables
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Author : Jean de La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Selected Fables written by Jean de La Fontaine and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Poetry categories.
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 Fables Of La Fontaine Tr In Verse Mainly By R Thomson
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Author : Jean de La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
The Fables Of La Fontaine Tr In Verse Mainly By R Thomson written by Jean de La Fontaine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with categories.
The Fables Of Jean De La Fontaine
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Author : Jean de La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: Sleeping Cat Press
Release Date : 2014-11-01
The Fables Of Jean De La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and has been published by Sleeping Cat Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-01 with Fables, French categories.
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.
La Fontaine S Complete Tales In Verse
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Author : Jean de La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2009-10-26
La Fontaine S Complete Tales In Verse written by Jean de La Fontaine and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Though they were first written over 300 years ago, this is the first complete English translation of Jean de La Fontaine’s comedic classic Contes et nouvelles en vers. Both sexually charged and wickedly funny, La Fontaine’s Tales will surprise readers who know him only from his work on fables for children. Though the writing is more suggestive than vulgar, it still has the power to shock readers unprepared for the darkness that inhabits these poems. Included are nearly seventy illustrations dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, many of them rare, as well as extensive commentary by the editor.
The Fables Of La Fontaine
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Author : Jean de La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-01-19
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The Fables of La FontaineJean de La FontaineCOMPLETE - 12 BOOKS IN 1Translated from the French by Elizur Wright.With Notes by J. W. M. Gibbs.The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine were issued in several volumes from 1668 to 1694. They are classics of French literature.The first edition of this translation of La Fontaine's Fables appeared in Boston, U.S., in 1841. It achieved a considerable success, and six editions were printed in three years. Since then it has been allowed to pass out of print, except in the shape of a small-type edition produced in London immediately after the first publication in Boston, and the present publishers have thought that a reprint in a readable yet popular form would be generally acceptable.The translator has remarked, in the "Advertisement" to his original edition (which follows these pages), on the singular neglect of La Fontaine by English translators up to the time of his own work. Forty years have elapsed since those remarks were penned, yet translations into English of the complete Fables of the chief among modern fabulists are almost as few in number as they were then. Mr. George Ticknor (the author of the "History of Spanish Literature," &c.), in praising Mr. Wright's translation when it first appeared, said La Fontaine's was "a book till now untranslated;" and since Mr. Wright so happily accomplished his self-imposed task, there has been but one other complete translation, viz., that of the late Mr. Walter Thornbury. This latter, however, seems to have been undertaken chiefly with a view to supplying the necessary accompaniment to the English issue of M. Dor�'s well-known designs for the Fables (first published as illustrations to a Paris edition), and existing as it does only in the large quarto form given to those illustrations, it cannot make any claim to be a handy-volume edition. Mr. Wright's translation, however, still holds its place as the best English version, and the present reprint, besides having undergone careful revision, embodies the corrections (but not the expurgations) of the sixth edition, which differed from those preceding it. The notes too, have, for the most part, been added by the reviser.