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Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine
Jean de La FontaineTranslated by Norman R. Shapiro. Illustrated by David Schorr
Paper978-0-252-06650-4
$26.95
| Pub Date: | 1998 |
| Pages: | 192 pages |
| Dimensions: | 7 x 10 in. |
| Illustrations: | 64 Line Drawings |
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.
Subjects:
Literature, European / Poetry / Translation / French Studies
