The Masterpieces of La Fontaine

Title

en_US The Masterpieces of La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: fre

en_US Inscribed in 1917

en_US By Paul Hookham

Creator

en_US Hookham, Paul See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Hodgson, Margaret L.

Date

2016-01-25T16:19:24Z

en_US 1998-10

en_US 1916

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:19:24Z

Date Issued

en_US 1916

Abstract

en_US The title continues Done in a vein of phrasing terse /and fancy into English verse. Sixty fables. Thirty-one of them had appeared earlier and received a warm reception. Fine title-pieces and often humorous end-pieces; note the fox and wolf sitting facing each other in their buckets on 12, the rabbit with a turtle-house on his back on 26, and the lion and man, both artists, dueling each other on 57. Again, a cat rests by a bird cage with a To Let sign on it after The Cat and the two Sparrows (72). Van Quiller Allan (Allon?) has three full-page illustrations on 58, 82, and 128. Hodgson has full-page illustrations on 13, 17, 30, 38, 50, 70, 86, 94, 98, 106, 110, 116, and 150. The versions, chatty and engaging, appear to me to be both witty and faithful to La Fontaine. I want to look back at them during our fable course next semester. The title-page (like the cover) claims the book for Blackwell but the page before the title-page has Longmans, Green & Co. on it. Might the latter be the American distributor? 1916 also appears on the back of the book.

Identifier

en_US 2848 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78372

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US B.H. Blackwell (NY: Longmans, Green & Co.)

en_US Oxford

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A6 H66 1916 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