Download or read book La Fontaine and his friends written by Agnes Ethel Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Fontaine and His Friends a Biography written by Mackay, Agnes Ethel and published by London, Garnstone Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Fontaine and His Friends written by Agnes Ethel Mackay and published by George Braziller. This book was released on 1973 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography explores the impressive body of work of the famous French poet, La Fontaine.
Download or read book La Fontaine and His Friends written by Agnes Ethel Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Fontaine and His Friends written by Agnes Ethel Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 The Fables of la Fontaine written by Elizur Wright and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book The Fables of La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fables of La Fontaine written by Jean de la Fontaine and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fables by Jean de La Fontaine are considered classics of French literature. Collecting fables from a variety of sources, La Fontaine then adapted them into verse. Consisting of twelve books and 239 fables in all, these were originally aimed at adults, but have since been taught to children as a way to educate them in morals. At times they have been mixed in with the fables of Aesop. The sources for the fables are wide ranging, from Aesop to Boccaccio, from Babrius to Machiavelli - even drawing at times from ancient Indian collections of tales. Full chapter list. № 72 in Anne Haight's List of Banned Books.
Download or read book The Fables of La Fontaine written by Jean De La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 442 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 The Fables of La Fontaine written by Andrew Calder and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tel Socrate, La Fontaine a invité ses lecteurs à participer à son observation de l'humanité et à porter un regard détaché et lucide sur celle-ci.
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 The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered Into English Prose by Fredk Colin T written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Two Mules (Book I.-No. 4)There were two heavily-laden mules making a journey together. One was carrying oats and the other bore a parcel of silver money collected from the people as a tax upon salt. This, we learn, was a tax which produced much money for the government, but it bore very hard upon the people, who revolted many times against it.The mule that carried the silver was very proud of his burden, and would not have been relieved of it if he could. As he stepped out he took care that the bells upon his harness should jingle well as became a mule of so much importance.Suddenly a band of robbers burst into the road, pounced upon the treasure mule, seized it by the bridle, and stopped it short. Struggling to defend itself the unhappy creature groaned and sighed as it cried: "Is this then the fate that has been in store for me: that I must fall and perish whilst my fellow traveller escapes free from danger?""My friend," exclaimed the mule that carried only the oats, and whom the robbers had not troubled about, "it is not always good to have exalted work to do. Had you been like me, a mere slave to a miller, you would not have been in such a bad way now!"You boasted of being so swift.II THE HARE AND THE PARTRIDGE (Book V.-No. 17)Never mock at other people's misfortune; for you cannot tell how soon you yourself may be unhappy. �sop the sage has given us one or two examples of this truth, and I am going to tell you of a similar one now.A hare and a partridge were living as fellow-citizens very peacefully in a field, when a pack of hounds making an onset obliged the hare to seek refuge. He rushed into his form and succeeded in putting the hounds at fault. But here the scent from his over-heated body betrayed him. Towler, philosophising, concluded that this scent came from his hare, and with admirable zeal routed him out. Then old Trusty, who never is at fault, proclaimed that the hare was gone away. The poor unfortunate creature at last died in his form.The partridge, his companion, thought fit to soothe his last moments with some scoffing remarks upon his fate. "You boasted of being so swift," she said "What has come to your feet, then?"But even as she was chuckling her own turn came. Secure in the belief that her wings would save her whatever happened, she did not reckon upon the cruel talons of the hawk.III THE GARDENER AND HIS LANDLORD (Book IV.-No. 4)A man who had a great fondness for gardening, being half a countryman and half town-bred, possessed in a certain village a fair-sized plot with a field attached, and all enclosed by a quickset hedge. Here sorrel and lettuce grew freely, as well as such flowers as Spanish jasmine and wild thyme, and from these his good wife Margot culled many a posy for her high days and holidays.This happy state of things was soon troubled by the visits of a hare, and to such an extent that the man had to go to his landlord and lodge a complaint. "This wretched animal," he said, "comes here and stuffs himself night and morning, and simply laughs at traps and snares....
Download or read book Fables of La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Curse of La Fontaine written by M. L. Longworth and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating installment of M. L. Longworth’s acclaimed series, our newlywed investigators contend with their most sinister challenge yet: a centuries-old curse Provençal Mystery Series #6 Watch the series! Murder in Provence is now on Britbox. Chef Sigisbert “Bear” Valets has just opened his own restaurant, La Fontaine, in Aix-en-Provence. It’s an immediate success—glowing reviews and a loyal clientele, including our favorite investigative duo, Verlaque and Bonnet. But when he decides to extend his restaurant’s seating into a historic courtyard, some very powerful neighbors are against him. The local historical society wants the courtyard, which witnessed a seventeenth-century hanging and two World War II-era murders, to remain untouched. Valets charges on, even after a skeleton is found buried next to the courtyard’s ancient fountain. But when Valets begins receiving threatening letters, he becomes convinced that his life is in danger. And then the fountain inexplicably stops running. By disturbing the garden, has Bear triggered an age-old curse? And can newlyweds Verlaque and Bonnet solve the mystery before someone else ends up dead? Set against the blossoming backdrop of the south of France, M. L. Longworth’s latest is sure to thrill fans of Donna Leon and Andrea Camilleri. “Beguiling . . . Longworth evokes the pleasures of France in delicious detail—great wine, delicious meals, and fine company.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book The Complete Fables of La Fontaine written by Jean de la Fontaine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wonderful, vigorously contemporary translation, Craig Hill has captured the liveliness, satiric wit, and poetic beauty that made Jean de la Fontaine famous during his lifetime and his Fables celebrated as a masterwork of world literature ever since. Despite la Fontaine’s deceptively modest claim that all he intended was to put the moral tales of Aesop and other ancient fabulists into poetry for the pleasure of Louis XIV’s young son, his real accomplishment, as later generations have understood, was holding a mirror up to the society of his day and, in the process, fashioning a work that has become a classic. Borrowing from a variety of sources, la Fontaine gave the hitherto mute animals in ancient fables the power of speech. Backstabbing politicians, brainless nincompoops, charlatans, clueless heads of state, egomaniacs, empty-headed celebrities, foolish investors, gluttons, liars, penny–pinchers, self-important blowhards, and wastrels—these are the targets of la Fontaine’s pen. In this beautifully bound collector’s edition, Craig Hill has given us a rare treat: both the irreverent spirit and the vivid poetry that have made la Fontaine’s fables beloved through the ages, continuing to amuse and inspire centuries after they ?rst appeared in print.
Download or read book Rodolphus of Werdenberg Translated from the German of La Fontaine sic written by August Heinrich Julius Lafontaine and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
