Fifty Fables of La Fontaine

Fifty Fables of La Fontaine
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1997
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780252066498

Presents fifty verse fables by seventeenth-century poet Jean de La Fontaine in side-by-side French and English.

Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine

Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780252066504

These wonderfully wrought moral tales will as easily charm children with bright and basic truths as they will delight adults drawn to their reflectively subtle, sophisticated facets of wit and wisdom.

Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables
Author: Aesop
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1994
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781853261282

A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.

The Pancatantra

The Pancatantra
Author: Sarma, Visnu
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2006-08-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0140455663

First recorded 1500 years ago, but taking its origins from a far earlier oral tradition, the Pancatantra is ascribed by legend to the celebrated, half-mythical teacher Visnu Sarma. Asked by a great king to awaken the dulled intelligence of his three idle sons, the aging Sarma is said to have composed the great work as a series of entertaining and edifying fables narrated by a wide range of humans and animals, and together intended to provide the young princes with vital guidance for life. Since first leaving India before AD 570, the Pancatantra has been widely translated and has influenced a cast number of works in India, the Arab world and Europe, including the Arabian Nights, the Canterbury Tales and the Fables of La Fontaine. Enduring and profound, it is among the earliest and most popular of all books of fables.

One Hundred Fables

One Hundred Fables
Author: Jean De La Fontaine
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781016775410

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Winter Dialogue

Winter Dialogue
Author: Tomas Venclova
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780810117266

This collection of thirty poems may be compared to the critical essays that have made Venclova famous. Venclova's major poetic accomplishment is his linking of intimate experience and historical incident in poems that are intensely contemporary at the same time as they reach back to the ethnic roots of an entire generation. Diana Senechal's deft translation from the Lithuanian - done in collaboration with the author - preserves both Venclova's lyric voice and the complex stanzaic patterns for which his poetry is known in his native country. Featuring an insightful introduction by the late Joseph Brodsky, and a fascinating exhange between Venclova and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz about the city of their respective youths.

The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine

The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
Author: Jean La Fontaine
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0252091671

Inspired new translations of the work of one of the world's greatest fabulists Told in an elegant style, Jean de la Fontaine's (1621-95) charming animal fables depict sly foxes and scheming cats, vain birds and greedy wolves, all of which subtly express his penetrating insights into French society and the beasts found in all of us. Norman R. Shapiro has been translating La Fontaine's fables for over twenty years, capturing the original work's lively mix of plain and archaic language. This newly complete translation is destined to set the English standard for this work. Awarded the Lewis Galantière Prize by the American Translators Association, 2008.

Kalīla Wa-Dimna

Kalīla Wa-Dimna
Author: Jill Sanchia Cowen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1989
Genre: Art
ISBN:

In the 14th-century Mongol court of Persia, the Kalila wa Dimna animal tales inspired a narrative cycle of expressive and beautiful paintings. Cowen offers a lively new translation of the tales and original Persian paintings, exploring the ways in which the artists expanded the content of the fables to create a wicked and allegorical portrait of the Mongol Court.