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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Page xiv
... Fontaine's lines , while unshackled from a rigid regularity , remain nonetheless bound by certain conventions of rhyme and meter . ) 3 This flexible form , with its profusion of run - on lines , internal rhyming , and natural speech ...
... Fontaine's lines , while unshackled from a rigid regularity , remain nonetheless bound by certain conventions of rhyme and meter . ) 3 This flexible form , with its profusion of run - on lines , internal rhyming , and natural speech ...
Page xv
... Fontaine's prestige across a wide social spectrum from peasant to intellectual , was seen as a natural art form in which to display the accomplishments of the cultural renaissance . Others would use his work as " pre - text " : a ...
... Fontaine's prestige across a wide social spectrum from peasant to intellectual , was seen as a natural art form in which to display the accomplishments of the cultural renaissance . Others would use his work as " pre - text " : a ...
Page xvi
Jean de La Fontaine. for a misperceived immorality . Many have pointed out - and here Rousseau was right — that , while perhaps originally intended for the young , 7 most of La Fontaine goes well beyond even a precocious child's ...
Jean de La Fontaine. for a misperceived immorality . Many have pointed out - and here Rousseau was right — that , while perhaps originally intended for the young , 7 most of La Fontaine goes well beyond even a precocious child's ...
Page xvii
... Fontaine - and occasionally used as well by contemporaries like Corneille and Molière - is in fact closer , at least in ... Fontaine's " Fables " ( Oxford : Blackwell , 1966 ) Richard Danner , Patterns of Irony in the " Fables " of La ...
... Fontaine - and occasionally used as well by contemporaries like Corneille and Molière - is in fact closer , at least in ... Fontaine's " Fables " ( Oxford : Blackwell , 1966 ) Richard Danner , Patterns of Irony in the " Fables " of La ...
Page xviii
... Fontaine's less generally admired Contes ( 1665-74 ) , contains stylistic observations applicable as well to his Fables : John Clarke Lapp , The Esthetics of Negligence : La Fontaine's " Contes " ( Cambridge : Cam- bridge University ...
... Fontaine's less generally admired Contes ( 1665-74 ) , contains stylistic observations applicable as well to his Fables : John Clarke Lapp , The Esthetics of Negligence : La Fontaine's " Contes " ( Cambridge : Cam- bridge University ...
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