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Title
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The Hare and the Tortoise and other Fables of La Fontaine
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
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First printing
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Translated by Ranjit Bolt
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Creator
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Bolt, Ranjit
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Contributor
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Potter, Giselle
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:53:47Z
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2008-05
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2006
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:53:47Z
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Date Issued
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2006
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Abstract
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The flyleaf speaks of Ranjit Bolt as an award-winning translator. Nineteen fables, with an introduction and an afterword. The illustration style is primitive. Bolt's introduction closes with this good paragraph: When they travel from country to country, century to century, and translator to translator, fables change in the process. I am happy to have joined such a long history of translators with this version of the fables, and I hope you enjoy reading them and choosing your favorites. Perhaps you will even make up some of your own! (7). This introduction is well illustrated with a king at the bottom of the two pages receiving a long scroll from the bill of a crow at the pages' top. About half the fables take two pages to tell; the others take four. TH is true to La Fontaine in having the hare spurn a hollow victory. Although it was a record run,/The tortoise had already won (11). I think that I never understood The Man and the Mirrors before, but I understand it well now. Other people reflect back our faults to us. We can avoid other people and their reflection, but then even a stream will reflect our image. And what is that stream? These fables! I appreciate the consistent sense that these translations with their rhyming couplets make. LM features a rather reckless rat (32)! In FK, Jove sent a moving king -- a crane/That liked to kill and crunch and munch/Ten frogs with tea and ten for lunch (36-37). Generally, I find La Fontaine's order of the men's encounters in MSA not helping the fable, but Bolt's telling of this fable (44-47) is among the best I have seen. The best illustrations may be the most complex, like DW (18-19), The Farmer and His Sons (30-31), and The Rat and the Elephant (50-51). This copy came with a postcard describing the mission of Barefoot Books. Its illustration is a detail from TMCM.
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Identifier
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9781905236541
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6293 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Barefoot Books
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Cambridge, MA
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Subject
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PZ8.2.B63 Har 2006
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La Fontaine
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole