Item
French Fables in Action
- Title
- en_US French Fables in Action
- Description
- en_US Language note: French
- Violet Partington
- Creator
- en_US Partington, Violet See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Ripman, Walter (Preface)
- Date
- 2019-01-28T20:29:45Z
- 2018-11
- en_US 2018
- Date Available
- 2019-01-28T20:29:45Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2018
- Abstract
- en_US This book was first published in 1918 by E.P. Dutton. Yesterday's Classics "is the publishing arm of the Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project." The heart of this print-on-demand volume is 57 pages of French text offering ten of La Fontaine's fables as theatrical pieces, with several scenes and characters in each fable. Thus in the first presentation, TT, the talkative tortoise speaks first of boring days in her "vieux trou." The two ducks, Quoique and Pourquoi, stop by on their way to America and soon enough, after the tortoise complains about being stuck in her little garden, offer to take her along. In a second scene, the three prepare. Towards the end of the scene, the two ducks take off with Madame Tortue after a short conversation with a peasant couple. The peasant seeing Madame Tortue aloft, says she is the queen of turtles. "La reine! Oui, en effet je la suis" answers the turtle and falls to her apparent death. The two ducks speak La Fontaine's four-verse moral. Other stories included are DW; "The Lark and Her Children"; GA, "The Old Man and the Three Youths"; MM; UP; "The Laborer and His Children"; TB; and TMCM.
- Identifier
- en_US 11375 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Yesterday's Classics
- en_US Ithaca, NY
- Subject
- en_US PC2117.P25 2018 See all items with this value
- Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books