The Complete Fables of La Fontaine
A New Translation in Verse
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Sorel, Edward (Illustr.) / Hill, Craig (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-62872-167-6
- EAN: 9781628721676
- Produktnummer: 22301747
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'992 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 8 - 99 J.
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Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695) is the author of the four-volume Tales and Novels in Verse, but it was the Fables, which went through thirty-seven printings in his lifetime, that brought him lasting fame.Craig Hill, an editor and architect, fell in love with la Fontaine's Fables in the mid-1950s when he was a young man. He and his wife, Heather, live in Lincoln, Massachusetts.Edward Sorel is one of America's ?nest artists and satirists. He lives in New York City.
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