Fifty Fables of La FontaineFinally 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. |
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... Fabulists French : Nine Centuries of the French Verse Fable in Translation , and had intended , upon first reflection , to exclude from that volume the prototypic and seminal La Fontaine , certainly no stranger to an enlightened ...
... Fabulists French : Nine Centuries of the French Verse Fable in Translation , and had intended , upon first reflection , to exclude from that volume the prototypic and seminal La Fontaine , certainly no stranger to an enlightened ...
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... fabulist of the Western world enjoys such prestige and universal recognition . And rightly so . La Fontaine was , in a ... fabulists : Florian , Dorat , Jauffret , Arnault ... The list is long.4 And most would hew as closely as their ...
... fabulist of the Western world enjoys such prestige and universal recognition . And rightly so . La Fontaine was , in a ... fabulists : Florian , Dorat , Jauffret , Arnault ... The list is long.4 And most would hew as closely as their ...
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... fabulists that follow . Those who would ignore him merely acknowledge his presence the more they affirm his absence . Stylistically , of course , none matches his talent , though many have considerable gifts of their own . However they ...
... fabulists that follow . Those who would ignore him merely acknowledge his presence the more they affirm his absence . Stylistically , of course , none matches his talent , though many have considerable gifts of their own . However they ...
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... Fabulists French : Nine Centuries of the French Verse Fable in Translation [ Urbana : University of Illinois Press , forthcoming ] . ) 2. In the preface to his first collection ( 1668 ) , La Fontaine calls attention , albeit modestly ...
... Fabulists French : Nine Centuries of the French Verse Fable in Translation [ Urbana : University of Illinois Press , forthcoming ] . ) 2. In the preface to his first collection ( 1668 ) , La Fontaine calls attention , albeit modestly ...
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... fabulists of the sixteenth century - the " modernes " to whom he refers - he probably knew little if anything of his medieval French antecedents . ( For examples of their work , see The Fabulists French , as well as my earlier ...
... fabulists of the sixteenth century - the " modernes " to whom he refers - he probably knew little if anything of his medieval French antecedents . ( For examples of their work , see The Fabulists French , as well as my earlier ...
Contents
III | xx |
IV | xxi |
V | 2 |
VI | 3 |
VII | 6 |
VIII | 7 |
IX | 8 |
X | 9 |
LIV | 58 |
LV | 59 |
LVI | 60 |
LVII | 61 |
LVIII | 62 |
LIX | 63 |
LX | 64 |
LXI | 65 |
XI | 10 |
XII | 11 |
XIII | 12 |
XIV | 13 |
XV | 14 |
XVI | 15 |
XVII | 16 |
XVIII | 17 |
XIX | 18 |
XX | 19 |
XXI | 19 |
XXII | 19 |
XXIII | 19 |
XXIV | 19 |
XXV | 20 |
XXVI | 21 |
XXVII | 24 |
XXVIII | 25 |
XXIX | 28 |
XXX | 29 |
XXXI | 30 |
XXXII | 31 |
XXXIII | 32 |
XXXIV | 34 |
XXXV | 35 |
XXXVI | 35 |
XXXVII | 35 |
XXXVIII | 38 |
XXXIX | 39 |
XL | 42 |
XLI | 43 |
XLII | 43 |
XLIII | 43 |
XLIV | 44 |
XLV | 45 |
XLVI | 48 |
XLVII | 49 |
XLVIII | 52 |
XLIX | 53 |
L | 54 |
LI | 55 |
LII | 56 |
LIII | 57 |
LXII | 66 |
LXIII | 67 |
LXIV | 68 |
LXV | 69 |
LXVI | 70 |
LXVII | 71 |
LXVIII | 72 |
LXIX | 73 |
LXX | 76 |
LXXI | 77 |
LXXII | 80 |
LXXIII | 81 |
LXXIV | 82 |
LXXV | 83 |
LXXVI | 84 |
LXXVII | 85 |
LXXVIII | 86 |
LXXIX | 87 |
LXXX | 88 |
LXXXI | 89 |
LXXXII | 90 |
LXXXIII | 91 |
LXXXIV | 92 |
LXXXV | 93 |
LXXXVI | 93 |
LXXXVII | 93 |
LXXXVIII | 93 |
LXXXIX | 93 |
XC | 96 |
XCI | 97 |
XCII | 100 |
XCIII | 101 |
XCIV | 103 |
XCV | 103 |
XCVI | 106 |
XCVII | 107 |
XCVIII | 108 |
XCIX | 109 |
C | 110 |
CI | 111 |
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Common terms and phrases
Aesop assez autre avoit Ayant bâton beast beau bien Bœuf C'est Celui-ci Cerf chose Ciel commère contre Corbeau coup d'une Dauphin deux Dieu Dieux dire dit-il dolphin Elle enfants enfin étoit être eût Fables Fabulists Fabulists French faire fait faut Fontaine Fontaine's Frog Garo gens Gland grand Grand Vizier Grenouille haut homme J'ai J'en jamais Jauffret jeune jour l'autre L'HOMME l'on L'un La Fontaine LA FOURMI LE CORBEAU le Cygne Lion Loup Love mainte maître mieux moindre mon affaire monde Monsieur Mouton n'en n'est n'étoit pareil pauvre peine père petit peut pieds Piraeus plaindre Pot de fer qu'elle qu'il qu'on qu'un raison Renard rien s'en S'il sage Seamus Heaney seul SHE-BEAR souvent Stag Styx Sultan Tantôt temps Tereus terre tête tout translation trouva Vaugirard verse fable vieux voilà voir vouloit voyant wolf