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Title
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Fables Ancient and Modern: After the Manner of La Fontaine
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Description
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William Wallbeck
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Creator
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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Date
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2016-01-25T20:20:49Z
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2012-12
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2012
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T20:20:49Z
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Date Issued
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1787
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Abstract
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Wallbeck starts with 34 pages of introduction replete with remarks about reviewers, the dedicatee, and La Fontaine. He declares a policy of setting old and new out together: let the reader decide which he likes; he illustrates this policy with an engaging anecdote of a host who put out a great wine and an ordinary one but marked them only 1 and 2; he would then let his guest decide which he liked. Wallbeck presents sixty fables. His first fable is, I am delighted to notice, Aesop at Play. I think it makes a fine introduction to a book of fables. Fable III expands La Fontaine's GA; I do not find that it gains by the expansion. It rather misses La Fontaine's turn of sympathy in the fable. I quit after VII, The Two Cats and the Monkey, which takes a good simple fable and makes it eleven pages long! I am surprised I had not heard of this book before. It seems to antedate by nineteen years Thompson's complete La Fontaine, presumably the first complete translation in English.
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Identifier
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9781290004367
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8709 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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R. Faulder; J. Stockdale; J, Debrett; J. Edwards: J. Walter; and E. Newberry/Hardpress Publishing
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London
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Subject
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PN981.W35 2012
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole