[PDF] The Fables Of La Fontaine eBook

Author : Jean de la Fontaine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1628721677

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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.

Author : Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486411064

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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.

Author : Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher : Sleeping Cat Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Fables, French
ISBN : 9780991440771

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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.

Author : Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 2017-01-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781542646307

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The Fables of La FontaineJean de La FontaineCOMPLETE - 12 BOOKS IN 1Translated from the French by Elizur Wright.With Notes by J. W. M. Gibbs.The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine were issued in several volumes from 1668 to 1694. They are classics of French literature.The first edition of this translation of La Fontaine's Fables appeared in Boston, U.S., in 1841. It achieved a considerable success, and six editions were printed in three years. Since then it has been allowed to pass out of print, except in the shape of a small-type edition produced in London immediately after the first publication in Boston, and the present publishers have thought that a reprint in a readable yet popular form would be generally acceptable.The translator has remarked, in the "Advertisement" to his original edition (which follows these pages), on the singular neglect of La Fontaine by English translators up to the time of his own work. Forty years have elapsed since those remarks were penned, yet translations into English of the complete Fables of the chief among modern fabulists are almost as few in number as they were then. Mr. George Ticknor (the author of the "History of Spanish Literature," &c.), in praising Mr. Wright's translation when it first appeared, said La Fontaine's was "a book till now untranslated;" and since Mr. Wright so happily accomplished his self-imposed task, there has been but one other complete translation, viz., that of the late Mr. Walter Thornbury. This latter, however, seems to have been undertaken chiefly with a view to supplying the necessary accompaniment to the English issue of M. Dor�'s well-known designs for the Fables (first published as illustrations to a Paris edition), and existing as it does only in the large quarto form given to those illustrations, it cannot make any claim to be a handy-volume edition. Mr. Wright's translation, however, still holds its place as the best English version, and the present reprint, besides having undergone careful revision, embodies the corrections (but not the expurgations) of the sixth edition, which differed from those preceding it. The notes too, have, for the most part, been added by the reviser.

Author : Jean de la Fontaine
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2016-02-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781530168002

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The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine were issued in several volumes from 1668 to 1694. They are classics of French literature. The subject of each of the Fables is often common property of many ages and races. What gives La Fontaine's Fables their rare distinction is the freshness in narration, the deftness of touch, the unconstrained suppleness of metrical structure, the unfailing humor of the pointed the consummate art of their apparent artlessness. Keen insight into the foibles of human nature is found throughout, but in the later books ingenuity is employed to make the fable cover, yet convey, social doctrines and sympathies more democratic than the age would have tolerated in unmasked expression. Almost from the start, the Fables entered French literary consciousness to a greater degree than any other classic of its literature. For generations many of these little apologues have been read, committed to memory, recited, paraphrased, by every French school child. Countless phrases from them are current idioms, and familiarity with them is assumed. "La Fontaine's Fables," wrote Madame de Sevigne, "are like a basket of strawberries. You begin by selecting the largest and best, but, little by little, you eat first one, then another, till at last the basket is empty." Silvestre de Sacy has commented that they supply delights to three different ages: the child rejoices in the freshness and vividness of the story, the eager student of literature in the consummate art with which it is told, the experienced man of the world in the subtle reflections on character and life which it conveys. Nor has any one, with the exception of a few paradoxers like Rousseau and a few sentimentalists like Lamartine, denied that the moral tone of the whole is as fresh and healthy as its literary interest is vivid. The book has therefore naturally become a standard French reader both at home and abroad."

Author : Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 2008-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781436624084

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 2012-11-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 0486498476

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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."

Author : Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2015-11-26
Category :
ISBN : 9782896875818

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This first collection contains 5 fables from Jean de La Fontaine. The fables have illustrations and explanations to help readers understand the meaning and the moral of each story. - The Frog that wanted to be as big as an Ox - The Crow and the Fox - The Cricket and the Ant - The town Rat and the country Rat - Death and the Woodcutter The concept: There are three different voices in this collection of La Fontaine fables: the original French text, with all its rhythms and rhymes, has been put into English by Rowland Hill. The meaning of the text is explained to younger readers by Nicolas Rey and Laura Marine. And the moral that Jean de La Fontaine wants us to understand sits big and bold at the end of each story. The illustrations by MarlEne Lapalu are rich in colour, hinting at mischief and humour. Younger readers will be able to enjoy the remarks of the narrator-observer as each story unfolds. The voice of the narrator-observer might show surprise, or amusement or disapproval depending on what happens to the various characters. The purpose of having this extra voice is to add extra weight to the words of Jean de La Fontaine and to help children make sense of the original French in a fun way. For 6 years and upwards.

Author : Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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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.