Favourite Fables of La Fontaine

Title

en_US Favourite Fables of La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Alena Linhartová

Creator

en_US Krejčová, Zdeňka See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Krejčová, Zdeňka

Date

2016-01-25T16:18:46Z

en_US 1997-04

en_US 1995

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:18:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 1995

Abstract

en_US Large-format, colorful book containing forty-six fables. The art is big, colorful, and dramatic. BF (#1) has the smallest bird I have ever seen trying to wear these peacock feathers! OF (#3) starts with a great image of a horned frog; the ox is his only interlocuter, and there is no other frog around. TMCM (#5) does show a Turkish rug, but the setting seems to be more the country meal than the city meal, and there is no country meal in La Fontaine! Great chagrined lion (#12), overcome by the gnat. Sometimes the images of two fables are merged on one two-page spread, e.g. 14-15 (GA and FC) and 20-21 (WC and FG). The storytelling is good in WC: the wolf was not even able to cry for help and thus made no promise of a reward. Notice the ending of this version of FG: I suppose this verdict made him feel better than complaining about not being able to reach the grapes. Appropriately, a gravedigger steals the miser's buried gold (#24). In 2P (#25) the iron pot has a good moustache. The illustration for The Mountain that Gave Birth (#27) is strange: a man in the foreground raises a golden egg in his hand, while the mountain in the background looks sad. In TB (#28), the bear says the man is a corpse. I'm sure. It smells horrible. In The Torrent and the River (#40), a hat floating on the calm surface tells the whole story. In TT (#42), the crowd was admiring the tortoise when she felt the need to answer back. Great job for an inexpensive book! T of C at the front, listing stories by number, not page. The texts are centered prose. Copyright 1993 by Aventinum Nakladdatelstvi: apparently the Slovak version.

Identifier

en_US 1857781546

en_US 2675 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78210

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Aventinum Pub. House

en_US London

Subject

en_US PQ1811.E3 L56 1995 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole