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25%OFFJean de La Fontaine - Fables - 9781857155082 - V9781857155082
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Fables

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Seventeenth-century Frenchman Jean de La Fontaine happily plundered Aesop and other classical writers as a source for his witty, elegant fables, as well as inventing a number of his own. Seeking to expose the weaknesses of human nature, he offered vivid perspectives on greed and flattery, envy and avarice, love and friendship, old age and death. The sixty fables collected here – from 'The Crow and the Fox' and 'The Cock and the Pearl' to 'The Grasshopper and the Ant' and 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse' – are illustrated with more than a hundred drawings by R. de ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Series
Everyman's Library Children's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857155082
SKU
V9781857155082
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