Fifty Fables of La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fifty Fables of La Fontaine

Description

en_US Language note: Bilingual: French/English

en_US Review copy

en_US Norman R. Shapiro

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Robinson, Alan James

Date

2016-01-25T16:30:05Z

en_US 1998-03

en_US 1988

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:30:05Z

Date Issued

en_US 1988

Abstract

en_US This is a lovely bilingual edition with excellent rhymed translations and notes. The black-and-white art is not outstanding; the best illustrations are those of the lion and gnat (between 23 and 24) and of an old cat and a young mouse (between 103 and 104). The frog of OF has a very human face; the straight frontal approach is unusual for this story (between 5 and 6). The frog seems to be clutching the mouse from behind as the hawk's talons appear in the oval picture of FM (between 47 and 48). I notice that this is one of the few illustrations of TT that uses a complex tree branch rather than a straight stick for the flight (between 95 and 96).

Identifier

en_US 252066499

en_US 3174 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78574

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US University of Illinois Press

en_US Urbana

Subject

en_US PQ1811.E3 S45 1997 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole