The Rich Man and the Shoemaker: A Fable by La Fontaine

Title

en_US The Rich Man and the Shoemaker: A Fable by La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: ger

en_US First edition

en_US Retold and Illustrated by Bernadette Watts

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Watts, Bernadette

Date

2016-01-25T19:38:07Z

en_US 2005-03

en_US 2002

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:38:07Z

Date Issued

en_US 2002

Abstract

en_US I am delighted to see that Bernadette Watts is continuing to illustrate fables. She had done so for at least three Aesopic fables earlier: The Wind and the Sun, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, and The Lion and the Mouse. The telling here is not true to La Fontaine's fine fable. Not only are fine little details left out, like the shoemaker's reference to the feast days on which he may not work, but bigger things are changed too. For example, the merchant here at first asks the shoemaker to stop singing. There is no such request anywhere in La Fontaine. In La Fontaine's version, the singing stops of its own accord as the shoemaker fixates in worry on his new treasure. In this version, the merchant has to try three times to give the shoemaker some gold. The latter, when he finally accepts it, digs into the frozen ground behind his home. I enjoy Watts' art. She sets the shoemaker into a very warm family-business setting here.

Identifier

en_US 073581676X (lib. binding : alk. paper)

en_US 5398 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80939

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US North-South Books

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.W35 Rc 2002 See all items with this value

en_US One See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole