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Once Again, La Fontaine: Sixty More Fables
(Wesleyan University Press: University Press of New England, 2000)
Here is the hardbound version of a book I had found only in paperback earlier. I will include my comments from there. Shapiro and Schorr are at it again! This marks their third book together on La Fontaine. It is, I ...
The Complete Fables of La Fontaine
(University of Illinois Press, 2007)
After his work on three partial editions of fables of La Fontaine, Shapiro has arrived at a complete fables. The book gives credit to the three exclusively La Fontaine editions that Shapiro produced: Fifty Fables of La ...
As fábulas de La Fontaine de São Vicente de Fora/Les fables de La Fontaine du monastère de Saint-Vincent à Lisbonne
(Gótica/Chandeigne, 2001)
I fell in love with this landscape-formatted book as soon as I saw it. I had not even known of the beautiful tile walls of the monastery that are pictured in photographs here. There are thirty-eight of these murals, as ...
Cent Fables de La Fontaine
(Omnibus, 2004)
This is a fascinating concept. Each of the hundred fables presented here includes La Fontaine's text, presented with a bowed margin. Each also includes at least one black-and-white photograph, the kind one can often ...
Jean de La Fontaine: Fables
(Gallimard Jeunesse, 2003)
This lovely little book, 6½ x 7½, is a new favorite. My affection for the book starts with the way the cover illustrations are painted onto the page as though they were stickers. These figures include the fox and crow, ...
Fables Choisies mises en vers par M. de La Fontaine
(Éditions Équinoxe, 2000)
I have seldom been charmed as much by a book as I am charmed by this edition. Of course, it was a pleasure to find it together at one of the bouquinistes on the Seine. Most friends have given up on finding a new fable ...
Jean de La Fontaine: Les Fables en BD
(Editions Petit à Petit, 2006)
Here is a hardbound comic book about 6 x 8½ which I sought while in Paris and all around Germany last summer. No one knew what I was talking about except one book dealer in Berlin, and he could not promise delivery within ...
As fábulas de La Fontaine de São Vicente de Fora/Les fables de La Fontaine du monastère de Saint-Vincent à Lisbonne
(Chandeigne/Nova Terra, 2001)
What a marvelous book! And what a marvelous place to present! I had never heard of this collection of tiles representing fables of La Fontaine. Thirty-eight of La Fontaine's fables are presented here in splendid groupings ...
Après vous, M de La Fontaine . . . Contrefables
(Hachette Jeunesse, 2006)
The author writes in the Avant-Propos: Par une suite en forme d'hommage, j'ai voulu, aujourd'hui, rendre justice aux victimes d'une tradition quelque peu contestable. Corbeaux, cigales, agneaux, belettes et petits lapins, ...
The Fables of La Fontaine
(Kessinger Publishing, 2004)
This volume is symptomatic of where book publishing is going these days. This 7½ x 9¼ paperback book of 432 pages reproduces the texts of Wright's edition of 1881 in good, accessible form. It does so without a single ...