French Fables in Action

Title

en_US French Fables in Action

en_US Dent's Modern Language Series

Description

en_US Language note: French

Violet Partington

Creator

en_US Partington, Violet

Contributor

en_US Ripman, Walter (Preface)

Date

2020-02-27T20:41:01Z

2020-01

en_US 1924

Date Available

2020-02-27T20:41:01Z

Date Issued

en_US 1924

Abstract

en_US Copyrights for this book run from 1908 through 1910, 1918, and 1919 to this edition in 1924. I was thus perhaps incorrect when I wrote of a recently published reprint that "this book was first published in 1918 by E.P. Dutton." I learn from Wikipedia that, in 1906, Dutton made a deal with Dent to be the American distributor of some of Dent's books. In any case, this is a Dent publication of 1924. The heart of this volume is 51 pages (1-51) of French text offering ten of La Fontaine's fables as theatrical pieces, with several scenes and characters in each fable. Thus in the first presentation, TT, the talkative tortoise speaks first of boring days in her "vieux trou." The two ducks, Quoique and Pourquoi, stop by on their way to America and soon enough, after the tortoise complains about being stuck in her little garden, offer to take her along. In a second scene, the three prepare. Towards the end of the scene, the two ducks take off with Madame Tortue after a short conversation with a peasant couple. The peasant seeing Madame Tortue aloft, says she is the queen of turtles. "La reine! Oui, en effet je la suis" answers the turtle and falls to her apparent death. The two ducks speak La Fontaine's four-verse moral. Other stories included are DW; "The Lark and Her Children"; GA, "The Old Man and the Three Youths"; MM; UP; "The Laborer and His Children"; TB; and TMCM. The rest of this little volume is a few pages of Dent's advertisements for "Collection Gallia" and masterworks of French literature. The endpapers offer volumes on various foreign countries and their language and literature.

Identifier

en_US 12203 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/126163

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US J.M. Dent and Sons

en_US London

Subject

en_US PC2117.P25 1924

Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned