Westbooks
Skip Navigation Links
The complete fables of La Fontaine a new translation in verse

La Fontaine, Jean de  more...
Arcade classics    more...

Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Junior Fiction
BIC Subjects: Fairy tales, folk tales, fables, magical tales & traditional stories
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Imprint: Arcade Publishing
Publication Date: 1/02/2012
Place of Publication: United States



 

RRP: $32.95
Available by Order
 Synopsis  Reviews  Information
In this wonderful, vigorously contemporary translation, Craig Hill has captured the liveliness, satiric wit, and poetic beauty that made Jean de la Fontaine famous during his lifetime and his Fables celebrated as a masterwork of world literature ever since. Despite la Fontaine s deceptively modest claim that all he intended was to put the moral tales of Aesop and other ancient fabulists into poetry for the pleasure of Louis XIV s young son, his real accomplishment, as later generations have understood, was holding a mirror up to the society of his day and, in the process, fashioning a work that has become a classic. Borrowing from a variety of sources, la Fontaine gave the hitherto mute animals in ancient fables the power of speech. Ages 7+.
You may also like...
 
 
© Copyright 2011 Caffey Family Trust & James Caffey T/A Westbooks ABN 56 301 349 349  Address 396 Mill Point Road, Victoria Park WA 6100
Phone +618 9361 4211 Fax +618 9361 8295 Email reception@westbooks.com.au Terms Terms and Conditions