Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine

en_US Contes et Fables de Toujours

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Sixieme tirage

en_US Retold by Verna Aardema

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Krejčová, Zdeňka

Date

2016-01-25T19:50:31Z

en_US 2007-02

en_US 1997

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:50:31Z

Date Issued

en_US 1993

Abstract

en_US Here is the French version of a book I had already found in German and English. Let me include some of my comments from there. This colorful large-format book contains 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; there is no other frog around. For TMCM (#5) the setting seems to be more the country meal than the city meal, and there is no country meal in La Fontaine! There is a 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). 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 The Torrent and the River (#40), a hat floating on the calm surface tells the whole story. Great job for an inexpensive book! T of C at the front, listing stories in order without page numbers.

Identifier

en_US 9782700010008

en_US 6097 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81504

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Librairie Gründ

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.L134 1993 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole