Download or read book Tales and Novels of J de La Fontaine Complete written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean de La Fontaine was born on the 8th of July, 1621, at Chateau-Thierry, and his family held a respectable position there. His education was neglected, but he had received that genius which makes amends for all. While still young the tedium of society led him into retirement, from which a taste for independence afterwards withdrew him. He had reached the age of twenty-two, when a few sounds from the lyre of Malherbe, heard by accident, awoke in him the muse which slept.
Download or read book Tales and Novels of J de La Fontaine Complete written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete" by Jean de La Fontaine. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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 Tales and Novels of J de La Fontaine Complete written by Jean De La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales and Novels of J de la Fontaine Complete written by Jean de Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean de La Fontaine was born on the 8th of July, 1621, at Chateau-Thierry, and his family held a respectable position there. His education was neglected, but he had received that genius which makes amends for all. While still young the tedium of society led him into retirement, from which a taste for independence afterwards withdrew him. He had reached the age of twenty-two, when a few sounds from the lyre of Malherbe, heard by accident, awoke in him the muse which slept. He soon became acquainted with the best models: Pheedrus, Virgil, Horace and Terence amongst the Latins; Plutarch, Homer and Plato, amongst the Greeks; Rabelais, Marot and d'Urfe, amongst the French; Tasso, Ariosto and Boccaccio, amongst the Italians. He married, in compliance with the wishes of his family, a beautiful, witty and chaste woman, who drove him to despair. He was sought after and cherished by all distinguished men of letters. But it was two Ladies who kept him from experiencing the pangs of poverty. La Fontaine, if there remain anything of thee, and if it be permitted to thee for a moment to soar above all time; see the names of La Sabliere and of Hervard pass with thine to the ages to come! The life of La Fontaine was, so to speak, only one of continual distraction. In the midst of society, he was absent from it. Regarded almost as an imbecile by the crowd, this clever author, this amiable man, only permitted himself to be seen at intervals and by friends. He had few books and few friends. Amongst a large number of works that he has left, everyone knows his fables and his tales, and the circumstances of his life are written in a hundred places.
Download or read book The Tales and Novels of J de La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Fontaine s Complete Tales in Verse written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though they were first written over 300 years ago, this is the first complete English translation of Jean de La Fontaine's comedic classic Contes et nouvelles en vers. Both sexually charged and wickedly funny, La Fontaine's Tales will surprise readers who know him only from his work on fables for children. Though the writing is more suggestive than vulgar, it still has the power to shock readers unprepared for the darkness that inhabits these poems. Included are nearly seventy illustrations dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, many of them rare, as well as extensive commentary by the editor.
Download or read book Tales and Novels of J de La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
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Download or read book The Tales and Novels of J de La Fontaine Volume 2 written by Jean De La Fontaine and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-21 with total page 370 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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 The Tales and Novels of J de La Fontaine Volume 1 written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-06 with total page 302 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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 of J de La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Complete Tales and Trifles of Jean de La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De la Fontaine's 'Contes et Nouvelles' (often misleadingly translated as 'Tales and Novels') are very different from his famous fables, being saucy stories in verse, mainly drawn from Italian sources. They were hugely popular in the seventeenth century for their literary raciness, and quickly translated into several languages, including English. This is a new edition (not a scan) of a complete early translation in two volumes; it includes nine modest black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book Tales and Novels of J de La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Jean de La Fontaine's works of fables and tales.
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Download or read book The Tales and Novels of Jean de La Fontaine V1 written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.