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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819334303321

Autore

La Fontaine Jean de <1621-1695.>

Titolo

The complete fables of Jean de La Fontaine / / translated by Norman R. Shapiro ; introduction by John Hollander ; illustrations by David Schorr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2007

ISBN

1-283-58330-5

9786613895752

0-252-09167-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (506 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ShapiroNorman R

SchorrDavid

Disciplina

841/.4

Soggetti

Fables, French

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the French.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 447) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""front cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Translator's Preface""; ""Introduction by John Hollander""; ""For Monseigneur le Dauphin""; ""BOOK I""; ""The Cricket and the Ant""; ""The Crow and the Fox""; ""The Frog Who Would  Grow as Big as the Ox""; ""The Two Mules""; ""The Wolf and the Hound""; ""The Heifer, the Goat, and the Lamb in Consort with the Lion""; ""The Beggar's Sack""; ""The Swallow and the Little Birds""; ""The City Rat and the Country Rat""; ""The Wolf and the Lamb""; ""The Man and His Image""

""The Dragon with Many Heads and the Dragon with Many Tails""""The Thieves and the Ass""; ""Simonides Saved by the Gods""; ""Death and the Wretched Man & Death and the Woodsman""; ""The Middle-aged Man and His Two Mistresses""; ""The Fox and the Stork""; ""The Child and the Schoolmaster""; ""The Cock and the Pearl""; ""The Hornets and the Honeybees""; ""The Oak and the Reed""; ""BOOK II""; ""Against Those with Too Difficult Tastes""; ""The Rats in Council Assembled""; ""The Wolf Pleading against the Fox before the Ape""; ""The Two Bulls and a Frog""; ""The Bat and the Two Weasels""

""The Bird Wounded by an Arrow""""The Mastiff Bitch and Her Friend""; ""The Eagle and the Dung Beetle""; ""The Lion and the Gnat""; ""The Ass with a Load of Sponges and the Ass with a Load of Salt""; ""The Lion and the Rat & The Dove and the Ant""; ""The Astrologer Who Happens to Fall



into a Well""; ""The Hare and the Frogs""; ""The Cock and the Fox""; ""The Crow Who Wanted to Imitate the Eagle""; ""The Peacock Who Complained to Juno""; ""The Cat Metamorphosed into a Woman""; ""The Lion and the Ass out Hunting""; ""The Will Explained by Aesop""; ""BOOK III""

""The Miller, His Son, and the Ass""""The Limbs and the Stomach""; ""The Wolf Turned Shepherd""; ""The Frogs Who Ask for a King""; ""The Fox and the Goat""; ""The Eagle, the Wild Sow, and the Cat""; ""The Drunkard and His Wife""; ""Gout and the Spider""; ""The Wolf and the Stork""; ""The Lion Brought Down by Man""; ""The Fox and the Grapes""; ""The Swan and the Cook""; ""The Wolf and the Ewes""; ""The Lion Grown Old""; ""Philomela and Procne""; ""The Drowned Wife""; ""The Weasel in the Larder""; ""The Cat and an Old Rat""; ""BOOK IV""; ""The Lion in Love""; ""The Shepherd and the Sea""

""The Fly and the Ant""""The Gardener and His Lord""; ""The Ass and the Pup""; ""The War between the Rats and the Weasels""; ""The Ape and the Dolphin""; ""The Man with the Wooden Idol""; ""The Jay Dressed in the Peacock's Feathers""; ""The Camel and the Floating Sticks""; ""The Frog and the Rat""; ""The Tribute Sent by the Animals to Alexander""; ""The Horse Who Sought Revenge on the Stag""; ""The Fox and the Bust""; ""The Wolf, the She-goat, and the Kid & The Wolf, the Mother, and the Child""; ""A Reflection from Socrates""; ""The Old Man and His Sons""; ""The Oracle and the Infidel""

""The Miser Who Lost His Treasure""