Five Fables of La Fontaine

Title

en_US Five Fables of La Fontaine

Description

en_US By Roberta Sewal

Creator

en_US Boutet de Monvel, Louis-Maurice

Contributor

en_US de Monvel, M. Boutet

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:20Z

en_US 1999-06

en_US 1967

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:20Z

Date Issued

en_US 1967

Abstract

en_US Surprise! When I bought this, I thought it was the 1967 Grolier edition that I already have, The Fox and the Stork And Other La Fontaine Fables, with its illustrations by Boutet de Monvel. Of course, when I found that book, I had thought it was another copy of La Fontaine illustrated by Doré! This little paperback presents five different fables from the five in that Boutet de Monvel edition. Here we have TH, TB, FWT, OF, and MM. For each, there are many illustrations one to a page rather than the several illustrations grouped on one page in the original Boutet de Monvel book (1871). Do not miss the exploding frog on 53. This book adds a Dear Reader page just after the T of C. Two things strike me here: The translation is not very faithful to La Fontaine. The milkmaid Perrette here returns not to her husband but to her father, and he tells her that she must not count her chickens before they are hatched. La Fontaine's own comments on daydreaming are dropped in favor of these additions. Finally, I must confess that when I reported on that book, I wrote this in error: The very last page lists books from Grolier, including the red Doré edition mentioned above, the blue 1967 Aesop by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by Tenniel and Wolf, and this brown volume, listed as Five Fables of La Fontaine. It is strange that the publishing company does not follow its own title, as it is printed on the title page, cover, and spine! Now I must confess that their list was referring to a different book, and they got its title right.

Identifier

en_US 3708 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79060

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Grolier Society

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PQ1812 .S4 1967

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole