Fables by Jean de La Fontaine

Fables

Jean de La Fontaine with R. de la Nézière (Illustrator), Edward Marsh (Translator)

160 pages first pub 1668 (editions) user-added

nonfiction classics poetry adventurous slow-paced
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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 offere...

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