Fables of La Fontaine: The Complete Fables
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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The fables in Elizur Wright's verse translation, first printed in Boston in 1841 and six times reprinted since: the fox and the crow, the oak and the reed, the animals sick of the plague, the cobbler and the financier. La Fontaine took his plots from Aesop and from India and made something entirely his own of them, and French children have been learning them by heart for three hundred years. Its 80 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.
The fables in Elizur Wright's verse translation, first printed in Boston in 1841 and six times reprinted since: the fox and the crow, the oak and the reed, the animals sick of the plague, the cobbler and the financier. La Fontaine took his plots from Aesop and from India and made something entire...
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Jean de La Fontaine was a French poet best known for his Fables, published between 1668 and 1694 and drawn from Aesop and Indian sources. In them animals speak with the manners of Louis XIV's court, so that a few dozen lines about a fox or a cricket carry a lesson about human vanity. Generations of French children have learned them by heart, and they remain among the most quoted verse in the language.
Jean de La Fontaine was a French poet best known for his Fables, published between 1668 and 1694 and drawn from Aesop and Indian sources. In them animals speak with the manners of Louis XIV's court, so that a few dozen lines about a fox or a cricket carry a lesson about human vanity. Generations ...
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