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Selected fables & tales / La Fontaine. Translated by Marie Ponsot ; with an afterword by Wallace Fowlie.

PQ1811.E3 P6 Potok copy

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695
Contributor:: Ponsot, Marie, translator.; Fowlie, Wallace, 1908-1998.; The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:: Signet classic ; CT335.; A Signet classic ; T335
Standardized Title:: Works. Selections. English. 1966
Language:: English; Undetermined
Subjects (All):: Fables, French--Translations into English.; Fables, French.
Genre:: Translations.
Penn Provenance:: Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy); Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
Physical Description:: 190 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm.
Other Title:: Selected fables and tales of La Fontaine
Place of Publication:: New York ; Toronto : Published by The New American Library ; London : The New English Library Limited, [1966]
Contents:: FABLES; The grasshopper and the ant; The crow and the fox; The frog who wanted to make herself big as an ox; Two mules; The heifer, the goat, the lamb, together with the lion; The city rat and the country rat; The thieves and the donkey; The fox and the stork; The rooster and the pearl; The wolf pleads against the fox before the monkey; The two bulls and a frog; The bird struck by an arrow; The lion and the rat; The dove and the ant; The peacock complains to Juno; The wolf who became a shepherd; The wolf and the stork; The lion slain by a man; The fox and the grapes; The swan and the cook; The wolves and the lambs; The lion who had grown old; Philomel and Procne; The drowned woman; The weasel in the attic storeroom; The donkey and the little dog; The man and the wooden idol; The crow dressed in peacock feathers; The camel and the driftwood; The fox and the portrait head; The wolf, the goat, and the kid; A saying of Socrates; The master's eye; The very small fish and the fisherman; The hare's ears; The farmer and his children; The mountain in labor; The doctors; The hen that laid golden eggs; The stag and the vine; The snake and the file; The bear and the two friends; The donkey dressed in the lion-skin; The mule boasts of his genealogy; The old man and the donkey; The stag who saw his reflection; The hare and the tortoise; The sun and the frogs; The farmer and the snake; The bird-catcher, the hawk, and the lark; The horse and the donkey; The dog that dropped his prey for its shadow; The charlatan; The rat that retired from worldly affairs; The heron; The young woman; The lion holds court; The coach and the fly; The milkmaid and the pot of milk; The two roosters; The cat, the weasel, and the small rabbit; The head and the tail of the snake; The man and the flea; The pig, the goat, and the sheep; The donkey and the dog; The value of learning; The torrent and the river; Education; The monkey and the leopard; The schoolboy, the teacher, and the man who owned a garden; The sculptor and the statue of Jupiter; The candle; The kite and the nightingale; The turtle and the two ducks; The man who buried things, and his friend; The pheasant hen and the roosters; The dog that had his ears trimmed; The lioness and the bear; The merchant, the gentleman, the shepherd, and the prince; The dream of a man in the land of the great mogul; The lion, the monkey, and the two donkeys; The old man and the three young men; The old cat and the young mouse; The sick stag; The eagle and the magpie; The fox, the flies, and the hedgehog; Love and folly; The fox and the turkeys; The Scythian philosopher; The madman and the wise man; TALES AND SHORT STORIES; The story of something that happened at Château-Thierry; A story taken from Atheneus; Another story taken from Atheneus; The ear-maker and the mold-mender; The vindicated servant girl; The villager looking for a calf; The load; The kiss returned; Epigram; King Candule; Smoked eel; OCCASIONAL VERSE; Letter to Racine, 6 June 1686; On the death of Molière; Epitaph for a lazy man; Another epitaph: on a talkative man; AFTERWORD.
Notes:: "Carefully selected, edited, and printed, Signet Classics provide a treasury of the world's great writings in handsomely designed volumes."; "First Printing, September 1966"; Includes index.; Publisher's advertisements: [2] pages at end.
Local Notes:: Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.; Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok Jan. 1968".
OCLC:: 915648

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