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In this wonderful, vigorously contemporary translation, Craig Hill has captured the liveliness, satiric wit, and poetic beauty that made Jean de la Fontaine famous during his lifetime and his Fables celebrated as a masterwork of world literature ever since. Despite la Fontaine’s deceptively modest claim that all he intended was to put the moral tales of Aesop and other ancient fabulists into poetry for the pleasure of Louis XIV’s young son, his real accomplishment, as later generations have understood, was holding a mirror up to the society of his day and, in the process, fashioning a work that has become a classic.
Borrowing from a variety of sources, la Fontaine gave the hitherto mute animals in ancient fables the power of speech. Backstabbing politicians, brainless nincompoops, charlatans, clueless heads of state, egomaniacs, empty-headed celebrities, foolish investors, gluttons, liars, penny pinchers, self-important blowhards, and wastrels these are the targets of la Fontaine’s pen. In this beautifully bound collector’s edition, Craig Hill has given us a rare treat: both the irreverent spirit and the vivid poetry that have made la Fontaine’s fables beloved through the ages, continuing to amuse and inspire centuries after they ?rst appeared in print.
Borrowing from a variety of sources, la Fontaine gave the hitherto mute animals in ancient fables the power of speech. Backstabbing politicians, brainless nincompoops, charlatans, clueless heads of state, egomaniacs, empty-headed celebrities, foolish investors, gluttons, liars, penny pinchers, self-important blowhards, and wastrels these are the targets of la Fontaine’s pen. In this beautifully bound collector’s edition, Craig Hill has given us a rare treat: both the irreverent spirit and the vivid poetry that have made la Fontaine’s fables beloved through the ages, continuing to amuse and inspire centuries after they ?rst appeared in print.
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Jean de la Fontaine (1621–1695) is the author of the four-volume Tales and Novels in Verse, but it was the Fables, which went through thirty-seven printings in his lifetime, that brought him lasting fame.
Craig Hill, an editor and architect, fell in love with la Fontaine’s Fables in the mid-1950s when he was a young man. He and his wife, Heather, live in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Edward Sorel is one of America’s finest artists and satirists. He lives in New York City.
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Craig Hill, an editor and architect, fell in love with la Fontaine’s Fables in the mid-1950s when he was a young man. He and his wife, Heather, live in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Edward Sorel is one of America’s finest artists and satirists. He lives in New York City.
“Nothing less than mesmerizing and productive.” (Sacramento Book Review)
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- PublisherArcade
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1611453445
- ISBN 13 9781611453447
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages400
- IllustratorSorel Edward
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