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"Beasts and Citizens" Forty Fables of La Fontaine.

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"Beasts and Citizens" Forty Fables of La Fontaine.

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2006? "Beasts and Citizens" Forty Fables of La Fontaine." CD. Translated and red by Craig Hill. Recording by Point One Audio, Lincoln, MA. Concord, MA: Palm Press. Unknown source.

It is pleasant to hear the translator read his own work, work we have in several copies, including an advance copy provided to me so that I could offer a review. The complete fables edition was by Arcade Publishing in 2008. The CD jewel case includes a simple leaflet offering a T of C of the fables read and their place in La Fontaine's twelve books. It refers to illustrations; I wonder if something has been lost from the simple foldout. Craig Hill is not an excited reader. Rather, as he is a careful translator, he is a careful reader. I find his title telling, especially since, of the first fables that I read, FK is particularly well done – and particularly telling for us in the United States these days! The rhymes often fortify the sense well. I can find no references to this disc online, but reviews mention the illustrations in the published edition, and the references to illustration here may well be pointing there.

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Carlson Fable Collection

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“"Beasts and Citizens" Forty Fables of La Fontaine.,” Creighton University Libraries: Archives & Special Collections, accessed January 18, 2025, https://creightonarchives.omeka.net/items/show/607.

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