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Selected Fables by Jean de La Fontaine
$17.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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 qui ...Show more
Selected Fables by Jean de La Fontaine
$30.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
La Fontaine's verse fables turned the traditional folktales derived from Aesop and a range of Oriental sources into some of the greatest, and best-loved, poetic work in French. His versions of stories such as 'The Hare and the Tortoise' and 'The Wolf and the Lamb' are witty and sophisticated, satirizing ...Show more
Selected Fables - Fables Choisies by Jean de La Fontaine; Stanley Appelbaum (Editor, Translator)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Dover Dual Language French Ser.
First published between 1668 and 1693, the Fables of La Fontaine rank among the masterpieces of French literature. This volume contains 75 of the best, in the original French with new English line-for-line literal translations. "The Cicada and the Ant," "The City Rat and the Country Rat," "The Fox and t ...Show more
The World is Full of Foolish Men : Little Black Classic by Jean De La Fontaine
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'The pleasure is twice as sweetWhen you cheat a cheat.' An illustrated collection of fables from one of France's most vital writers. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics ...Show more
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