Fables et Fabulettes: Recueil Fables de La Fontaine et Contes Inspirés d'Ésope

Title

en_US Fables et Fabulettes: Recueil Fables de La Fontaine et Contes Inspirés d'Ésope

Description

en_US Language note: French

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Creator

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Contributor

en_US Kincaid, Eric

Date

2022-11-07T16:11:26Z

2020-04

en_US 1981

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:11:26Z

Date Issued

en_US 1981

Abstract

en_US This book reproduces in French Brimax's "Treasury of Fables" from 1981, right down to the pagination. A curiosity is that that book is subtitled "A Collection of Aesop's Fables" while this is subtitled "Recueil Fables de La Fontaine et Contes Inspirés d'Ésope." French book-buyers need to find La Fontaine's name if they are going to buy a book of fables! Mention of Lucy Kincaid, the author of the English stories, is dropped here. Brimax is acknowledged for the 1981 copyright. Several online sources list the publication date of this book by Artima as 1981, though I cannot find it in the book. This book should not be confused with Artima's "Historiettes et Fables," which duplicates Brimax's "Timeless Fables," both also from 1981. I will include remarks that I made on the Brimax 1981 edition of "Treasury of Fables." With this book I have, I believe, worked my way back to the original publication from which Brimax and the Kincaids had developed so many offshoots. In particular, consult their "Timeless Fables: A Collection of Aesop's Fables" (1981) and "Fabulas Clasicas: Seleccion de Fabulas de Esopo" (1981/85). This edition, by contrast with those, has about twice the pages (125) and fables. On this trip through, I am struck with the facial expressions Eric Kincaid gives to both fox and stork in their two scenes together (22-23). Even the contrasting checkered napkins help to set the two scenes against each other.

Identifier

en_US 12306 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/138672

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Artima

Subject

Aesop See all items with this value