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Fables (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) Book

Seventeenth-century Frenchman Jean de La Fontaine happily plundered Aesop and other classical writers as a source for his witty, elegant fables, as well as inventing a number of his own. Seeking to expose the weaknesses of human nature, he offered vivid perspectives on greed and flattery, envy and avarice, love and friendship, old age and death. The sixty fables 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 a hundred drawings by R. de La Nezière which which charmingly capture La Fontaine’s unforgettable cast of animal personalities.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    The most famous fabulist after Aesop, the French poet Jean de la Fontaine published his three collections of fables in the second half of the seventeenth century, and found that not only had he an instant popular success on his hands...

  • Pickabook

    Jean de La Fontaine, R.De La Neziere (Illus), Edward Marsh (Trans)

  • 1857155084
  • 9781857155082
  • Jean de La Fontaine
  • 28 September 2001
  • Everyman's Library
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 160
  • New edition
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