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 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 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 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 Fables of La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the year 1886, the present book titled 'The Fables of La Fontaine' is a collection of Jean de La Fontaine's stories accompanied by his short bio and a few essays about him.
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 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.
Download or read book The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine written by Jean La Fontaine and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired new translations of the work of one of the world's greatest fabulists Told in an elegant style, Jean de la Fontaine's (1621-95) charming 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. Norman R. Shapiro has been translating La Fontaine's fables for over twenty years, capturing the original work's lively mix of plain and archaic language. This newly complete translation is destined to set the English standard for this work. Awarded the Lewis Galantière Prize by the American Translators Association, 2008.
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 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales and Novels of J de La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales And Novels of J. De La Fontaine. Children best Story of all time, the following in the insight of the book; IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with anxious look, his favours sought, And ev'ry heart within his net was caught. Quite proud of beauteous form and smart address. In which the world was led to acquiesce, He cried one day, while ALL attention paid, I'll bet a million, Nature never made Beneath the sun, another man like me, Whose symmetry with mine can well agree. If such exist, and here will come, I swear I'll show him ev'ry lib'ral princely care
Download or read book Tales and Novels of de La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book The Tales and Novels of Jean de La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
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 2023-09-10 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of moralistic stories by Jean de La Fontaine. The book features one hundred fables, each accompanied by illustrations, that offer timeless lessons on human nature, morality, and wisdom. From "The Grasshopper and the Ant" to "The Lion Going to War," readers of all ages will delight in the wit and wisdom of La Fontaine's tales.
