La Fontaine's Fables in Modern Clothes.

Title

en_US La Fontaine's Fables in Modern Clothes.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Victor Bagley

Creator

en_US Bagley, Victor See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:38Z

en_US 1994-03

en_US 1985

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:38Z

Date Issued

en_US 1985

Abstract

en_US This book fills the need for simple English prose versions of LaFontaine for children. About one-half of LaFontaine's fables are represented, with simple illustrations about every ten pages. The beginning Brief Outline has a very nice quotation from Silvestre de Sacy on the differing delights at different ages of reading LaFontaine. I believe from my reading of the book's first twenty fables that its adaptation will raise some questions. The animal coming upon the two companions is here a wolf, not a bear (4). GA (5) misses the point by having the singer proclaim that he was entertaining his friends. The liar by the end of the next day is reputed to have produced one hundred eggs the size of a watermelon (8)! A good change happens in FS, where the stork's container is transparent (12). The salt-bearing donkey jumps from a bridge (19), and the sponge-bearing one drowns.

Identifier

en_US 899624499

en_US 1801 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77367

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Todd & Honeywell

en_US Great Neck, NY

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A6 B33 1985 See all items with this value

en_US La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole