The Fables Of Jean De La Fontaine
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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.
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 Fiction 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 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.
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.
Fifty Fables Of La Fontaine
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Author : Jean de La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1997
Fifty Fables Of La Fontaine written by Jean de 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 1997 with Poetry categories.
Presents fifty verse fables by seventeenth-century poet Jean de La Fontaine in side-by-side French and English.
The Fables Of La Fontaine
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Author : Jean de La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Release Date : 2021-01-01
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First published in the year 1886, the present book titled 'The Fables of La Fontaine' is a collection of Jean de La Fontaine's stories accompanied by his short bio and a few essays about him.
The Original Fables Of La Fontaine
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Author : Jean de la Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-02-29
The Original Fables Of La Fontaine written by Jean de la Fontaine and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-29 with categories.
The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine were issued in several volumes from 1668 to 1694. They are classics of French literature. The subject of each of the Fables is often common property of many ages and races. What gives La Fontaine's Fables their rare distinction is the freshness in narration, the deftness of touch, the unconstrained suppleness of metrical structure, the unfailing humor of the pointed the consummate art of their apparent artlessness. Keen insight into the foibles of human nature is found throughout, but in the later books ingenuity is employed to make the fable cover, yet convey, social doctrines and sympathies more democratic than the age would have tolerated in unmasked expression. Almost from the start, the Fables entered French literary consciousness to a greater degree than any other classic of its literature. For generations many of these little apologues have been read, committed to memory, recited, paraphrased, by every French school child. Countless phrases from them are current idioms, and familiarity with them is assumed. "La Fontaine's Fables," wrote Madame de Sevigne, "are like a basket of strawberries. You begin by selecting the largest and best, but, little by little, you eat first one, then another, till at last the basket is empty." Silvestre de Sacy has commented that they supply delights to three different ages: the child rejoices in the freshness and vividness of the story, the eager student of literature in the consummate art with which it is told, the experienced man of the world in the subtle reflections on character and life which it conveys. Nor has any one, with the exception of a few paradoxers like Rousseau and a few sentimentalists like Lamartine, denied that the moral tone of the whole is as fresh and healthy as its literary interest is vivid. The book has therefore naturally become a standard French reader both at home and abroad."
The Fables Of La Fontaine
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Author : Jean de la Fontaine
language : en
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Release Date : 2021-01-01
The Fables Of La Fontaine written by Jean de la Fontaine and has been published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with Fiction categories.
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.
The Fables Of La Fontaine
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Author : Jean de La Fontaine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
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 1853 with Fables categories.