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Love & folly : selected fables and tales of LaFontaine / [Jean de La Fontaine] ; translated by Marie Ponsot ; edited and with an introduction by Benjamin Ivry ; illustrations by Soon Chun Cho.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English. 2002
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695--Translations into English.
- La Fontaine, Jean de.
- La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.
- Physical Description:
- 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Love and folly
- Selected fables and tales of LaFontaine
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Welcome Rain Publishers, 2002.
- Summary:
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) epitomized France's Great Century with his elegant style, emotional profundity and ready wit. Among the many translators who have attempted to render the fun and beauty of his writing in English, this selection by award-winning poet Marie Ponsot is arguably the finest ever achieved. She handles La Fontaine's menagerie of foxes, lions, wolves, donkeys, rats and other animals with a naturalness and unaffected elegance that have escaped almost every other translation, including the famous failed effort by poet Marianne Moore.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1566492270
- OCLC:
- 48958112
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