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Fables

Jean de La Fontaine; Translated by Sir Edward Marsh; Illustrated by R. de la Nézière

Part of Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series

Author Jean de La Fontaine
Illustrated by R. de la Nézière
Translated by Sir Edward Marsh
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$20.00 US
Knopf | Everyman's Library
6.3"W x 8.28"H x 0.61"D   | 12 oz | 12 per carton
On sale Oct 16, 2001 | 176 Pages | 9780375413346
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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 avarice, love and friendship, old age and death. The 60 collected here–from “The Crow and the Fox” and “The Cock and the Pearl” to “The Grasshopper and the Ant” and “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse”–are illustrated with more than 100 charming drawings that capture La Fontaine’s unforgettable cast of animal personalities.
Jean de La Fontaine (1621—1695) wrote poetry, plays, libretti, and several ambitious prose works, and is best known for his Fables. View titles by Jean de La Fontaine
R. de la Nézière View titles by R. de la Nézière

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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 avarice, love and friendship, old age and death. The 60 collected here–from “The Crow and the Fox” and “The Cock and the Pearl” to “The Grasshopper and the Ant” and “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse”–are illustrated with more than 100 charming drawings that capture La Fontaine’s unforgettable cast of animal personalities.

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Jean de La Fontaine (1621—1695) wrote poetry, plays, libretti, and several ambitious prose works, and is best known for his Fables. View titles by Jean de La Fontaine
R. de la Nézière View titles by R. de la Nézière

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