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Title
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Fables
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Lire et Voir les Classiques
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Description
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Language note: French
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Marie-Madeleine Fragonard
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Creator
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Fragonard, Marie-Madeleine
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Contributor
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Various
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Date
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2016-01-25T15:52:49Z
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1992-10
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1989
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T15:52:49Z
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Date Issued
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1989
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Abstract
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An excellent pocket edition of the complete fables, not including the posthumous fables or the stories usually attached to the fable collection. The main source is given under the title of each fable. There is a good inserted section of illustrations: political cartoons, personification engravings, photographic genre scenes, tapestry, lithography, Chauveau, Doré, Tokyo, Persian, Rabier, Disney. The preface stresses that La Fontaine's fables are written for adults; La Fontaine insists on the natural innocence of animals and the fundamental culpability of humans. Nos frères les animaux servent à deux fins: miroirs de nos défauts, dénonciateurs de notre liberté pervertie (12). Fable is never sad in its pessimism (but what of Gay's Hare's Friends ?). There is good help at the end of the book: AI, extensive lexicon and a list of proper names, dedications and contemporaries. A final dossier historique et littéraire offers wonderful material, especially the Fable and Fabulists, Filmography and Adaptations, and a bibliography. The first of these gives an excellent, if Gallocentric, sweep through history, including fables as plays and proofs for God's existence! After La Fontaine, fable moves toward contes en vers (452). The twentieth century sees a decline in the genre. A little treasurehouse!
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Identifier
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2266030736
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1314 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Presses Pocket
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Paris
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Subject
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PZ24.2.L3 Fab 1989
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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