La Fontaine : Selected Fables de La Fontaine, Jean De

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Penguin Publishing Group, 1982. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Publishing Group, 1982. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Classics, 1982-12-15. paperback. Good. Ships within 24 hours!Softcover, tight pages, clean text, moderate wear, corner/edge wear, creases, tanning.

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New York. 1982. Penguin Books. Reprinted Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. A Few Instances of Yellow Highlighting Inside, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. 0140443762. Translated from the French by James Michie. Introduction by Geoffrey Grigson. 142 pages. paperback. The cover shows The Fox and the Stork by Jean-Baptiste Oudry in the Musee National de Versailles (Photo: Giraudon). keywords: Literature France Translated Fables. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95) is celebrated for his charm, his absent-mindedness and, above all, his wonderful books of fables. Plundering Aesop, Phaedrus, Bidpai and the Persians, Italians and French, he reinvented the fable in a verse full of irresistible brio and freshness. His tales of speaking animals are always rooted firmly in the human world, and collectively they represent one of the high points of European civilization, achieving, over three centuries, an almost proverbial familiarity. ‘How inquisitive La Fontaine was, how indefatigable .… Leer más

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New York, NY Penguin Books, 1982. Paperback First Edition Thus, so stated. First Edition Thus, so stated. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of careful use: barely discernible spine lean; light wear to extremities and two creases near the upper front corner and a smaller crease at the lower front corner; mild rubbing to the wrapper covers; the pages have tanned somewhat, due to aging; binding secure; text clean. No longer 'As New', but remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 141pp. Mass Market Paperback. Translated by James Michie. Introduction by Geoffrey Grigson. Mass Market Paperback. The most famous fabulist after Aesop, the French poet Jean de la Fontaine published his three collections of fables in the second half of the seventeenth century, and found that not only had he an instant popular success on his hands; he happened to have written a literary masterpiece as well. Though not specifically composed for the young,… Leer más

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