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Fables (Paperback)
Jean De LA Fontaine
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R694
Discovery Miles 6 940
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Fables (Paperback)
Jean De LA Fontaine
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R571
Discovery Miles 5 710
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Jean De La Fontaine's most beloved classic fables and tales about
animals (and humans), enhanced by ironic illustrations, will
delight and entertain young readers while teaching valuable
lessons. Each board book will cover the most important topics for
character development. A precious collection presented in honor of
Jean de la Fontaine's birth anniversary, which will hit 400 years
in 2021.
Jean De La Fontaine's most beloved classic fables and tales about
animals (and humans), enhanced by ironic illustrations, will
delight and entertain young readers while teaching valuable
lessons. Each board book will cover the most important topics for
character development. A precious collection presented in honor of
Jean de la Fontaine's birth anniversary, which will hit 400 years
in 2021.
Jean De La Fontaine's most beloved classic fables and tales about
animals (and humans), enhanced by ironic illustrations, will
delight and entertain young readers while teaching valuable
lessons. Each board book will cover the most important topics for
character development. A precious collection presented in honor of
Jean de la Fontaine's birth anniversary, which will hit 400 years
in 2021.
Jean De La Fontaine's most beloved classic fables and tales about
animals (and humans), enhanced by ironic illustrations, will
delight and entertain young readers while teaching valuable
lessons. Each board book will cover the most important topics for
character development. A precious collection presented in honor of
Jean de la Fontaine's birth anniversary, which will hit 400 years
in 2021.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Though they were first written over 300 years ago, this is the
first complete English translation of Jean de La Fontaine's comedic
classic Contes et nouvelles en vers. Both sexually charged and
wickedly funny, La Fontaine's Tales will surprise readers who know
him only from his work on fables for children. Though the writing
is more suggestive than vulgar, it still has the power to shock
readers unprepared for the darkness that inhabits these poems.
Included are nearly seventy illustrations dating from the 18th and
19th centuries, many of them rare, as well as extensive commentary
by the editor.
Second only to Aesop, Jean de la Fontaine was the author of comic and delightful fables that are as alive today as when they first appeared in the 18th century. Based on tales both famous and obscure by an array of classical writers, La Fontaine’s fables offer vivid perspectives on such elemental subjects as greed and flattery, envy and avarice, love and friendship, old age and death. The 60 collected here–from “The Crow and the Fox” and “The Cock and the Pearl” to “The Grasshopper and the Ant” and “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse”–are illustrated with more than 100 charming drawings that capture La Fontaine’s unforgettable cast of animal personalities.
With bold illustrations that will capture the attention of
children, this collection gathers 20 of famous French fabulist La
Fontaine's most well-known tales, including "The Milkmaid and Her
Pail," "The Ant and the Grasshopper," "The Goose that Laid the
Golden Eggs," and "The Tortoise and the Hare." "Con ilustraciones
vivas que captaran la atencion de los ninos, esta coleccion reune
20 de los cuentos mejores conocidos del fabulista famoso frances La
Fontaine, incluyendo "La lechera," "La cigarra y la hormiga," "La
gallina de los huevos de oro" y "La liebre y la tortuga.""
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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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R399
R324
Discovery Miles 3 240
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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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