Engravings enhance seventeenth-century French tales that, inspired by Aesop, offer moral lessons

Fifty Fables of La Fontaine

Literature & Fiction

Shapiro, Norman R.

Robinson, Alan

Fontaine, Jean de

Poetry

University of Illinois Press

Following his first FIFTY FABLES OF LA FONTAINE as surely as La Fontaine followed Aesop, American Literary Translators Association award-winner Norman Shapiro now makes fabulous 50 more fables of the wonderful La Fontaine--among them The Hare and the Tortoise, The Old Man and the Ass, and The Frogs Who Asked for a King. Captivatingly illustrated by David Schorr.

Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine

History & Criticism

<p>Finally available in paperback--the original collection of La Fontaine fables by the award-winning translator Norman Shapiro, working his alchemy by transforming the accompanying original French verses into equally valuable and brilliant English gold. These wonderfully wrought moral tales charm children with bright and basic truths as they delight adults with reflectively subtle, sophisticated facets of wit and wisdom.<br></p>

Children's Books

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

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.

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Books by Fontaine, Jean de

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Fifty Fables of La Fontaine

Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine

Fifty Fables of La Fontaine

Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine