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Selected fables / Jean de la Fontaine ; translated by Eunice Clark ; illustrated by Alexander Calder.
LIBRA - Special PQ1811.E3 C4 1968
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695
- Standardized Title:
- Fables. English. Selections. 1948
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Fables, French--Translations into English.
- Fables, French.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 88 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dover Publications, [1968]
- Summary:
- All the imagination, whimsy, and invention that have made Calder's mobiles and stabiles so popular. 36 fables -- in rhymed translation by Eunice Clark -- with a drawing for each and 12 additional vignettes.
- Contents:
- The two pouches
- The hare and the ban on horns
- The rat and the elephant
- The lion in love
- The war between the rats and the weasels
- The mountain's delivery
- The pot of clay and the pot of iron
- The donkey and the lapdog
- The hen that laid the golden eggs
- The stag and the vine
- The camel and the driftwood
- The little carp and the angler
- The jay in peacock's feathers
- The eagle and the owl
- The man and the wooden idol
- The donkey and the relics
- The old man and his children
- The fox and the mask
- The miser who lost his treasure
- The two doctors
- The frog and the rat
- The farmer and his sons
- The ape and the dolphin
- The shepherd and the sea
- The ass and the dog
- The satyr and the wayfarer
- Education
- The madman who sold wisdom
- The cat and the rat
- The horses revenge
- Women and secrets
- The snake and the file
- The hare and the partridge
- The horse and the wolf
- The bear and the two crooks
- The man and the flea.
- Notes:
- "This Dover edition ... is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published in 1948"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 0486218783
- 9780486218786
- OCLC:
- 438838
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