01674nam a2200265 i 4500 363586 InACL 20260927135907.0 260927s2008 xxu 0 eng d 9781559708968 1559708964 InACL eng rda InACL 841.4 LAF 23 Fontaine, Jean de La author The complete fables of La Fontaine : a new translation in verse / Jean de La Fontaine New York : Arcade Pub., 2008 350 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "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 French Fables Children's stories, French Translations into English 633111 633111 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL GEN 2026-09-27 0 841.4 LAF 363586 2026-09-27 13:59:07 2026-09-27 BK