Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine

by Jean de la Fontaine, Norman R. Shapiro

     No less a poet than the great
        Seamus Heaney said of Norman Shapiro's Fifty Fables of La Fontaine,
        "It is a pleasure to open a book as sure and sly as these translations.
        . . . He gets the tune right and the tone right, and manages to echo both
        the folk wisdom and the poker-faced formality of the originals."
      As surely as La Fontaine followed
        Aesop, Shapiro has now made fabulous fifty more fables of the wonderful
        La Fontaine--among them "The Hare and the Tortoise," "The
        Old Man and the Ass," and "The Frogs Who Asked for a King."
        David Schorr has just as captivatingly illustrated them.
 

192 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1997

About the author

French writer Jean de la Fontaine collected the stories of Aesop and other persons in his Fables (1668-1694).

French literary figures, including Molière and Jean de la Fontaine, gathered at Auteuil, a favorite place.

People most widely read the famous poet Jean de la Fontaine of the 17th century.

According to Gustave Flaubert, only this poet understood and mastered the texture of the language before Victor Marie Hugo. A set of postage stamps, issued in 1995, celebrates la Fontaine. Jean de La Fontaine, le défi , a film, released in April 2007, starred Lorànt Deutsch of his life.

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