Esope & Jean de la Fontaine: Tome II

Title

en_US Esope & Jean de la Fontaine: Tome II

Description

en_US Language note: French

Aesop, Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Aractingi, Willy

en_US Le Bihan, Rene (Preface)

Date

2025-05-20T17:10:30Z

2024-11

en_US 1995

Date Available

2025-05-20T17:10:30Z

Date Issued

en_US 1995

Abstract

en_US This book comes from Willy Aractingi's daughter, June Nabaa, from Paris. Somewhere I had found a link to www.aractingiwilly.com, presumably in Lebanon. I tried to buy a complete set of postcards and noticed several of his books that I did not yet have. I was disappointed to learn that they did not have a set of the cards and that the contemplated two volumes completing the La Fontaine illustrations never saw the light of day. But this second volume of "Esope et Jean de La Fontaine" was available. It is uniform in format with the first volume, though it seems to have been printed later and has lost the association with the tricentenary of La Fontaine. Its cover is darker and less glossy, and the price has gone up 10 Francs. Some of the most engaging illustrations here include "Sick Lion and Fox" (39); "Lion and Mosquito" (41); "The Husband in a Bad Marriage" (61); "Oracle and Impious Man" (81); and SW (93). I expected fables beginning alphabetically after "Le Lievre et la Tortue," but there are seven here alphabetically ahead of that. Were these overlooked in preparing Volume I? "The Kite and the Nightingale: (67) is upside down either here or in Aractingi's 1992 "Jean de la Fontaine" (XXXXII). 7¾" x 9¾". 141 pages.

Identifier

en_US 13650 (Access ID)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/158006

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Z'editions

Subject

Aesop, Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value