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Title
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Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine
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Description
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Language note: Bilingual: French/English
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First printing
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Translated by Norman R. Shapiro
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Creator
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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Contributor
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Schorr, David
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:30:08Z
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1998-09
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1998
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:30:08Z
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Date Issued
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1998
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Abstract
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I like this book. The translations are lively, informed, occasionally arch. There are good notes at the back. Illustrations appear for perhaps half of the fifty fables, and they are frequently pairs of illustrations strategically located to highlight the fable and translation facing each other. Among the best of the illustrations are those for FK (30, 32), The Deer and the Vine (44-45), The Mule Boasting of His Family Tree (60-61), The Sick Lion and the Fox (74, 75, 77), and The Matron of Ephesus (146, 147, 154, 155). Schorr knows how to play with the fables. Do not miss his illustrations on the pages of notes on the translator and illustrator (168-9); he shows each at work. Did the two widows use scissors on the unsuspecting man (8-9)? Or did they perhaps pluck hairs imperceptibly while visibly scissoring? This fine book is a tribute to the fable tradition.
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Identifier
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3185 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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University of Illinois Press
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Urbana
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Subject
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PQ1811.E3S46 1998
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La Fontaine
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Type
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Book, Whole