Download or read book Selected Fables written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their unique blend of wit and poetic mastery, the verse interpretations of Aesop’s Fables by 17th-century author Jean de La Fontaine have enchanted readers of all ages for over three centuries. 70 popular and oft-quoted fables appear here, including "The Grasshopper and the Ant," "The Town Rat and the Country Rat," "The Fox and the Grapes," "The Hare and the Tortoise," and dozens more. A classic of French literature; brilliantly translated by Walter Thornbury into English verse.
Download or read book The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by Sleeping Cat Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charming and elegant, Jean de La Fontaine's (1621-1695) 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.
Download or read book One Hundred Fables written by Jean De La Fontaine and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Tales and Novels in Verse written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aesop s Fables written by Aesop and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.
Download or read book Love Folly written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many translators who have attempted to render the fun and beauty of his writing in English, this selection by award-winning poet Marie Ponsot is arguably the finest ever achieved.
Download or read book Fables of La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heavily illustrated reprint of a 1927 edition of La Fontaine's fables contains the original French verses and new English translations of such tales as "The Crow and the Fox" and "The Heron."
Download or read book The Original Fables of La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories with deep wisdom, gentle satire, polite cynicism, and, above all, irresistible humour.
Download or read book Fables of la Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by Tredition Classics. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
Download or read book Selected Fables of Jean de la Fontaine written by and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the imagination, whimsy, and invention that have made Calder's mobiles and stabiles so popular. 36 fables — in rhymed translation by Eunice Clark — with a drawing for each and 12 additional vignettes.
Download or read book Tales and Novels written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fables Edition Classique Ed 1860 written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by Hachette Livre - Bnf. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fables de J. de La Fontaine (Edition classique accompagnee de notes et remarques historiques, philologiques et litteraires, precedee d'une notice biographique)Date de l'edition originale : 1860Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF.Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique.En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles.Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.frhttp://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55441850
Download or read book Selected Fables written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine were issued in several volumes from 1668 to 1694. They are classics of French literature.
Download or read book La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1979 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Fables written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Fontaine's verse fables turned the traditional folktales derived from Aesop and a range of Oriental sources into some of the greatest, and best-loved, poetic work in French. His versions of stories such as 'The Hare and the Tortoise' and 'The Wolf and the Lamb' are witty and sophisticated, satirizing human nature in miniature dramas in which the outcome is always unpredictable. The behaviour of both animals and humans is usually centred on deception and cooperation (or the lack of it), as they cheat and fight each other, arguing about life and death, property and food, in an astonishing variety of narrative styles. The fables have long been popular with all ages, though their ironic take on contemporary society in French aristocratic circles is best appreciated by adults. This new translation by Christopher Betts matches the original in inventiveness and subtlety. It includes half of the fables first published in twelve books between 1668 and 1693, across the full range of subjects and themes. The fables are illustrated with a selection of Gustave Doré's majestic engravings, and an introduction offers insights into La Fontaine's life and literary artistry.
Download or read book Selected Works of Jean de La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can’t resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what often I’ve been told; Your tales of convent pranks are seldom cold; They have a grace that no where else we find, And, somehow, better seem to please designed. Another then we’ll have, which three will make:— Three did I say?-‘tis four, or I mistake; Let’s count them well:-The GARD’NER first, we’ll name; Then comes the ABBESS, whose declining frame Required a youth, her malady to cure A story thought, perhaps, not over pure; And, as to SISTER JANE, who’d got a brat, I cannot fancy we should alter that. These are the whole, and four’s a number round; You’ll probably remark, ‘tis strange I’ve found Such pleasure in detailing convent scenes:— ‘Tis not my whim, but TASTE, that thither leans: And, if you’d kept your breviary in view, ‘Tis clear, you’d nothing had with this to do; We know, howe’er, ‘tis not your fondest care; So, quickly to our hist’ry let’s repair. A CHARMING youth would frequent visits pay, To nuns, whose convent near his dwelling lay; And, ‘mong the sisters, one his person saw, Who, by her eyes, would fain attention draw; Smiles she bestowed, and other complaisance, But not a single step would he advance; By old and young he greatly was admired; Sighs burst around, but none his bosom fired.
Download or read book Fables Choisies written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the masterpieces of French literature: 75 Fables in original French with new English line-for-line literal translations. "The Cicada and the Ant," "The Fox and the Grapes," many more.
