More Fables of La Fontaine

More Fables of La Fontaine
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1925
Genre: Fables, French
ISBN:

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Selected Fables

Selected Fables
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: 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 Most Beautiful Fables of Aesop, Phaedrus and La Fontaine

The Most Beautiful Fables of Aesop, Phaedrus and La Fontaine
Author:
Publisher: White Star Kids
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Fables
ISBN: 9788854412569

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Fascinating stories of animals that represent, like a mirror, the vices and virtues of mankind, old stories that have survived for centuries thanks to their universal and timeless meaning, created from the imagination of the greatest fable writers of all times: Phaedrus, Aesop and La Fontaine. 36 favorite fables from three popular writers, all retold in simple, child-friendly language and delightfully illustrated. The Lion who learns that even the king of the jungle must sometimes depend on the tiniest creature. The Country Mouse who comes to the city . . . only to discover that there's really no place like home. Using appealing animals and their adventures, fables bring us bite-size messages of wisdom and teach us the secrets of human nature. This collection features 36 timeless tales from Aesop, Phaedrus, and La Fontaine - including "The Hare and the Tortoise," "The Crow and the Pitcher," "The Frogs Who Desired a King," and "The Hen with the Golden Eggs" - all illustrated in Marisa Vestita's colourful, contemporary, and inimitable style. AGES: 4 plus AUTHOR: Marisa Vestita began working as an illustrator in 2002 and today she exhibits at important events all over Italy. She has worked with prestigious Italian publishers and with numerous magazines, including Grazia and Natural Style. For White Star she has published a number of collections of fables.

The Complete Fables of La Fontaine

The Complete Fables of La Fontaine
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2011-11
Genre: 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.

Once Again, La Fontaine

Once Again, La Fontaine
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2000
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780819564580

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New translations of classic French fables.

More Fables from La Fontaine

More Fables from La Fontaine
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1954
Genre:
ISBN:

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Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables
Author: Aesop
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1994
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781853261282

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A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.

Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine

Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780252066504

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These wonderfully wrought moral tales will as easily charm children with bright and basic truths as they will delight adults drawn to their reflectively subtle, sophisticated facets of wit and wisdom.

The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine

The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher: Sleeping Cat Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: 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

The Original Fables of La Fontaine
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2016-02-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781530168002

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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."