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Fifty More Fables of la Fontaine
La Fontaine, Jean De; Shapiro, Norman R.
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Description for Fifty More Fables of la Fontaine
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252066504
SKU
V9780252066504
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