Seventeenth-century Frenchman Jean de La Fontaine happily plundered Aesop and other classical writers as a source for his witty, elegant fables, as well as inventing a number of his own. Seeking to expose the weaknesses of human nature, he offered vivid perspectives on greed and flattery, envy and avarice, love and friendship, old age and death. The sixty fables collected here - from 'The Crow and the Fox' and 'The Cock and the Pearl' to 'The Grasshopper and the Ant' and 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse' - are ...
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Seventeenth-century Frenchman Jean de La Fontaine happily plundered Aesop and other classical writers as a source for his witty, elegant fables, as well as inventing a number of his own. Seeking to expose the weaknesses of human nature, he offered vivid perspectives on greed and flattery, envy and avarice, love and friendship, old age and death. The sixty fables collected here - from 'The Crow and the Fox' and 'The Cock and the Pearl' to 'The Grasshopper and the Ant' and 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse' - are illustrated with more than a hundred drawings by R. de La Nezi???re which which charmingly capture La Fontaine's unforgettable cast of animal personalities.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Two volumes. French language. All in VG order throughout bar a little toning to stock. Green paper wraps a little faded to spine and worn to edges. Volumes 54 and 55 in the Biblioth? ue De Cluny series. 12mo. 354 and 426pp.
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Gustave Dore. Very good. A Selection, rendered into English by Elizur Wright. Illustrated in b/w by Gustave Dore. 224 pages. Tall 4to, red cloth. London: Jupiter Books, 1975. A very good copy, lacking the dust wrapper.
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