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Jean La Fontaine | David Schorr

Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine

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Title
A01=Jean La Fontaine
A12=David Schorr
animals
anthropomorphized
Author_David Schorr
Author_Jean La Fontaine
birds
Category=FBC
Category=FYB
charm
dense
eq_anthologies-novellas-short-stories
eq_bestseller
eq_classics
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_nobargain
folk wisdom
formal
French
insects
poetry
resonant
sly
tales
traditional
translation
verse
wit

Product details

  • ISBN 9780252031441
  • Weight: 934g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Oct 2007
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description
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.