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The complete fables of La Fontaine : (Record no. 633111)
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| fixed length control field | 01674nam a2200265 i 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 260927s2008 xxu 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781559708968 |
| ISBN | 1559708964 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 841.4 |
| Item number | LAF |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Fontaine, Jean de La |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The complete fables of La Fontaine : |
| Sub Title | a new translation in verse / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Jean de La Fontaine |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 350 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "In this 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 of sources, La Fontaine gave the hitherto mute animals in ancient fables the power of speech. Putting his characters on stage and endowing them with irresistibly witty dialogue, he portrayed with great humor the flaws and pretensions that still dog us. Backstabbing poli |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | French Fables |
| Topical Term | Children's stories, French |
| Topical Term | Translations into English |
| 264 #1 - | |
| -- | New York : |
| -- | Arcade Pub., |
| -- | 2008 |
| 336 ## - | |
| -- | text |
| -- | txt |
| -- | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - | |
| -- | unmediated |
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| -- | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - | |
| -- | volume |
| -- | nc |
| -- | rdacarrier |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 27.09.2026 | 841.4 LAF | 363586 | 27.09.2026 | Books |