Jean de La Fontaine
8) Fables
Author
Publisher
Garnier-Flammarion
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
Français
Description
Les Fables de Jean de La Fontaine sont un recueil de fables écrites en vers, publiées entre 1668 et 1694. Ce livre est considéré comme l'une des œuvres les plus importantes de la littérature française. Il est composé de plus de 200 fables, qui sont des histoires courtes qui enseignent une morale à travers l'utilisation d'animaux comme personnages. Les fables de La Fontaine sont encore lues et étudiées aujourd'hui pour leur style poétique...
10) Selected fables
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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 works 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 behavior of both animals and humans is usually centered on deception...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
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...
