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Selected Fables (Paperback)
Jean De LA Fontaine; Edited by James Michie; Illustrated by J.J. Grandville; Introduction by Geoffrey Grigson
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Discovery Miles 3 330
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Jean de la Fontaine (1621-95) freely plundered the works of Aesop,
Phaedrus, Bidpai and others to transform the world's great fables
into charming poems of astonishing originality, wit and verve. Here
he depicts lions, frogs, donkeys, rats, insects, birds and wily
foxes in situations that reveal the quirks, follies and frailties
he observed in humankind. Sins of pride, greed and vanity come
under humorous attack - a cunning fox tricks a crow out of his
dinner, an arrogant hare loses a race to a steady tortoise, a merry
cicada who sings all summer finds herself hungry in winter, and the
goddess Juno scolds a peacock who covets a nightingale's song. But
faith in human nature can also be found in poems such as those in
which a wolf is saved from choking by a helpful stork,
demonstrating an engaging belief in the possibilities of
redemption.
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