Item
The most beautiful fables of La Fontaine; Les plus belles fables de La Fontaine
- Title
- en_US The most beautiful fables of La Fontaine; Les plus belles fables de La Fontaine
- Description
- en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/French
- Jean de La Fontaine; translated by Rosland Hill
- Creator
- en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Gestin, Muriel
- Date
- 2022-11-07T16:12:00Z
- 2021-08
- en_US 2019
- Date Available
- 2022-11-07T16:12:00Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2019
- Abstract
- en_US Here is the bilingual version of a book released by the same publisher at the same time, of which we have a paperbound copy. This present 8½" square unpaginated hardbound book offers eight fables in full color. Each fable receives about six pages. The colored illustrations cover whole pages, into which several verses are inserted per page. The art may well be computer generated. Each fable has a prose moral added. In GA, it is rain rather than snow that signals the season of hunger. The full page of the crow pinning his head against the tree in shame in FC is well done. Again a full page is dominated by the bloated tummy of the expanding frog as we gaze into her eyeballs bursting with bloodshot. WL concludes very well with just the dark woods: the lamb is gone. In the last scene of "Death and the Woodman," Death with his sickle is flying away. Also TH, GGE, and TMCM. At the end is a surprising but helpful lexicon of unusual vocabulary, arranged by fable, in both languages. The two covers together present a scene with La Fontaine and these fables' characters. A year later Chouette did a second volume of French only, and our collection has it. Is there a similar bilingual companion to that book?
- Identifier
- en_US 12736 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng|fre
- Publisher
- en_US Chouetteditions, com
- en_US Quebec, Canada
- Subject
- Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books