10 edition of Fables of La Fontaine found in the catalog.
Published
2006
by University of Washington Press in Seattle
.
Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | compiled and edited by Koren Christofides ; introduction by Constantine Christofides ; translations by Constantine Christofides and Christopher Carsten. |
| Genre | Illustrations., Translations into English. |
| Contributions | Christofides, Koren., Christofides, Constantine., Carsten, Christopher. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PQ1811.E3 C35 2006 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | p. cm. |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL3414899M |
| ISBN 10 | 0295985992 |
| LC Control Number | 2005031067 |
Fables of La Fontaine, The. Boston: Roberts Brothers, Item # The Fables of La Fontaine - One of Numbered Copies Illustrated by Auguste Delierre Finely Bound and Extra Illustrated With Over Two Hundred Additional Engravings LA FONTAINE, Jean de. The Fables of La Fontaine. Translated from the French. With twenty-five original etchings by A. Delierre. The Fables Project / Koren Christofides xi --La Fontaine: From Animal Allegory to Tragic Vision / Constantine Christofides xiii --The Fables/The Artists --The Grasshopper and the Ant / Fay Jones 2 --The Frog and the Ox / Harvey Daniels 4 --The Beggar's Bag / Laura McCallum 6 --The Man and His Image / Dan Meyers 8 --The Dragon with Many Heads and the Dragon with Many Tails / Dana Prescott 10 - .
Second only to Aesop, Jean de la Fontaine was the author of comic and delightful fables that are as alive today as when they first appeared in the 18th century. Based on tales both famous and obscure by an array of classical writers, La Fontaine’s fables offer vivid perspectives on such elemental subjects as greed and flattery, envy and. Originally published in , this splendid collection of La Fontaine's fantasies will delight devotees of modern art and book illustration as well as readers of all ages. Enchanting color illustrations grace every page, and the original French renderings of La Fontaine's witty verses are .
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Told in an elegant style, Jean de la Fontaine's () 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 by: From the Publisher: Jean de la Fontaine was one of the few great poets of his age and is justly famous for his fables.
He was a vivid story-teller, who drew his material from the great stories of Aesop, putting them for the first time into verse.
Many of the fables are Fables of La Fontaine book allegories with animals mirroring human folly and behavior/5(2).
Community Reviews. The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine were issued in several volumes from to They are classics of French literature. Divided into 12 books, there are of the Fables, varying in length from a few lines to some hundred, those written later being as a rule longer than the earlier/5.
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The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré Language: English: LoC Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese: Subject: Fables, French -- Translations into English Category: Text: EBook-No.
Release Date: The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine are French masterpieces: fables in twelve books. Here is an English adaptation. The first six books are in the main adapted from the work known as Fables of Aesop, with fables of Babrius and Phaedrus also. As for the fables’ casts of characters, most of the fables present, as usual, familiar characters from the animal kingdom.
“I use animals to teach men,” says La Fontaine in the poem that serves as a preface to The Fables. Some of the fables do, however, feature humans of various social classes and nationalities. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg.
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J., Title: Fables de La Fontaine Language: French: LoC. The most famous fabulist after Aesop, the French poet Jean de la Fontaine published his three collections of fables in the second half of the seventeenth century, and found that not only had he an instant popular success on his hands; he happened to have written a literary masterpiece as well.
The Fables of La Fontaine As available in English, translated from the original French Jean de La Fontaine () was a French poet, but is remembered mainly for his Fables, a work which is considered to be one of the masterpieces of French literature. “La Fontaine’s fame rests on his Fables told in a familiar persuasive style and with an inimitable naïveté and a semi-pagan sentiment for nature which make them delightful to all readers” (Harvey & Heseltine, ).
First published in French in in 58 weekly parts starting in NovemberDoré’s illustrated La Fontaine “was eagerly awaited” in an English language edition. A cogent introduction by Constantine Christofides describes the volatile social context of seventeenth-century France as well as the literary tradition, stemming from Aesop, that underlies La Fontaine's fables/5(K).
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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 Released on: Novem The Fables unquestionably represent the peak of La Fontaine’s achievement. The first six books, known as the premier recueil (“first collection”), were published in and were followed by five more books (the second recueil) in –79 and a twelfth book in The Online Books Page.
Online Books by. Jean de La Fontaine (La Fontaine, Jean de, ) An online book about this author is available, as is a Wikipedia article. La Fontaine, Jean de, The Fables of La Fontaine (), ed. by J. Gibbs, trans. by Elizur Wright (Gutenberg text) La Fontaine, Jean de, The Tales and Novels of J.
de La Fontaine (Gutenberg text). 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.
Jean de La Fontaine (UK: / ˌ l æ f ɒ n ˈ t ɛ n,-ˈ t eɪ n /, US: / ˌ l ɑː f ɒ n ˈ t eɪ n, l ə- ˌ l ɑː f oʊ n ˈ t ɛ n /, French: [ʒɑ̃ d(ə) la fɔ̃tɛn]; 8 July – 13 April ) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century.
He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe Born: 8 SeptemberChâteau-Thierry, Champagne. Fables of La Fontaine by Jean de La Fontaine The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine were issued in several volumes from to They are classics of French literature.By: Jean de La Fontaine () Livre 1.
Voici le premier livre des Fables de Jean de La Fontaine publié par le fabuliste à l’âge de 47 ans. Inspiré de l’oeuvre du fabuliste grec Ésope, Jean de La Fontaine met en scène les animaux pour mieux décrire les éternels comportements humains.
Éternels?"It is a pleasure to open a book of verse as sure and sly as these translations by Norman Shapiro. He gets the tune right and the tone right, and manages to echo both the folk wisdom and the poker-faced formality of the originals."--Seamus Heaney, on Shapiro's Fifty Fables of La Fontaine.
