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The Complete Fables of La Fontaine
(University of Illinois Press, 2007)
Here is my work copy of this fine book. 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 ...
The Complete Fables of La Fontaine: A New Translation in Verse: Advance Proofs
(Arcade PublishingDistributed by Hachette Book Group, 2008)
Here is a paperback advance copy of a book I have already reviewed in its hardbound version. This copy has only of Sorel's illustrations, FK. It introduces Book 1. There is also here no list of illustrations on xv. Let ...
Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks: Illustrated Edition
(P.F. Volland/Dodo Press, 2010)
Here is a print upon demand black-and-white reprint of Larned and Rae's book originally published by Volland in 1918. Like the original, it has eighteen fables, each done with four excellent, witty pictures. The illustrations ...
Fables: Jean de La Fontaine (Korean)
(Crayon House, Ltd.K*ureyong Haus*u, 2003)
I was delighted to find this old friend translated into Korean in the few minutes I had to shop for books in Seoul on this trip. It seems to be a translation and otherwise a reproduction of the beautiful French 1994 version ...
L'Ineffable la Fontaine revisité
(Atelier AkimboÉditions Gilbert Salachas, 2001)
I am indebted to John for finding me this outstanding work. It combines imagination of various sorts. It presents forty-one fables of La Fontaine and does several things with each. First it offers a delightful line-drawing ...
The Complete Fables of La Fontaine: A New Translation in Verse
(Arcade PublishingDistributed by Hachette Book Group, 2008)
It is unusual to find a complete La Fontaine. The list in English includes, I believe, only Thomson, Wright, Thornbury, Moore, Spector, and Schapiro. This translation is curious because it took the author some fifty years ...
Jean de la Fontaine: Selected Fables
(Dover Publications, 2000)
Here is an inexpensive ($1.50) verse version of some seventy of La Fontaine's most famous fables. This surprise find will be worth considering the next time I teach fables. My congratulations to Dover for making it so ...
The Hare and the Tortoise and other Fables of La Fontaine
(Barefoot Books, 2006)
The flyleaf speaks of Ranjit Bolt as an award-winning translator. Nineteen fables, with an introduction and an afterword. The illustration style is primitive. Bolt's introduction closes with this good paragraph: When ...
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 ...
Jean de La Fontaine: Fables
(Milan: Jeunesse, 2007)
Copyright 2000 Editions Milan. But the depot legal at the bottom of the page facing the title-page lists 2007. This is a large-format children's book with lively colored illustrations. It is ironic: I have been trying ...