ISBN: 9781530170128

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine were issued in several volumes from 1668 to 1694. They are classics of French literature. T… Mehr…

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine were issued in several volumes from 1668 to 1694. They are classics of French literature. The subject of each of the Fables is often common property of many ages and races. What gives La Fontaine's Fables their rare distinction is the freshness in narration, the deftness of touch, the unconstrained suppleness of metrical structure, the unfailing humor of the pointed the consummate art of their apparent artlessness. Keen insight into the foibles of human nature is found throughout, but in the later books ingenuity is employed to make the fable cover, yet convey, social doctrines and sympathies more democratic than the age would have tolerated in unmasked expression. Almost from the start, the Fables entered French literary consciousness to a greater degree than any other classic of its literature. For generations many of these little apologues have been read, committed to memory, recited, paraphrased, by every French school child. Countless phrases from them are current idioms, and familiarity with them is assumed., Classics<

ISBN: 9781530170128

Stories with deep wisdom, gentle satire, polite cynicism, and, above all, irresistible humour. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Literature>Myth,Folklore>Mythology, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1

ISBN: 9781530170128

This large print title is set in Tiresias 16pt font as recommended by the RNIB. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Literature>Myth,Folklore>Mythology, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1

ISBN: 9781530170128

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], Myth & Legend Told As Fiction