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cover of Fifty Fables of La Fontaine

Fifty Fables of La Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine. Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. Illustrated by Alan James Robinson

University of Illinois Press, 1988

Finally available in paperback--the original collection of La Fontaine fables by the award-winning translator Norman Shapiro, working his alchemy by transforming the accompanying original French verses into equally valuable and brilliant English gold. These wonderfully wrought moral tales charm children with bright and basic truths as they delight adults with reflectively subtle, sophisticated facets of wit and wisdom.
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cover of The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine

The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine

University of Illinois Press, 2007

Inspired new translations of the work of one of the world's greatest fabulists

Told in an elegant style, Jean de la Fontaine's (1621-95) charming animal fables depict sly foxes and scheming cats, vain birds and greedy wolves, all of which subtly express his penetrating insights into French society and the beasts found in all of us. Norman R. Shapiro has been translating La Fontaine's fables for over twenty years, capturing the original work's lively mix of plain and archaic language. This newly complete translation is destined to set the English standard for this work.

Awarded the Lewis Galantière Prize by the American Translators Association, 2008.

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