Jean de La Fontaine: Fables

Title

en_US Jean de La Fontaine: Fables

en_US Everyman's Library: Children's Classics

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: fre

en_US Translated by Sir Edward Marsh

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US De La Nézière, R.

Date

2016-01-25T19:11:57Z

en_US 2002-01

en_US 2001

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:11:57Z

Date Issued

en_US 2001

Abstract

en_US By chance I passed by Olsson's in Bethesda between visits to used book stores, and I found this lovely recent book. It combines the excellent work of de la Nézière, both in color and in black-and-white, with the good verse translations of Marsh. Might the occasion of using de la Nézière's work be that it is exactly 75 years since its publication in 1926? I notice that the back of the title page is careful about acknowledging Marsh's original publication (in Everyman's Library) in 1952 but says nothing about the art of de la Nézière. Sixty fables are presented here, regularly with two black-and-white illustrations. I find sixteen illustrations in color, and they are strong: FC; OF; WL; FS; BC; The Lion and the Gnat; The Hare and the Frogs; FK; FG; The Cat and the Old Rat; The Donkey and the Lapdog; BF; DLS; TH; The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox; and The Fox, the Wolf, and the Horse. The art likes to employ airplanes for flying animals, e.g., in AD (37) and TT (156). The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox (141) wins my prize for the best illustration. This might be the book I would recommend most highly this year as an excellent, sturdy, inexpensive fable book. Well done!

Identifier

en_US 375413340

en_US 4369 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80039

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Alfred A. Knopf

en_US Toronto

Subject

en_US PQ1811.E3 M3 2001 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole