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Title: Complete Tales in Verse
Condition: New
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
Translator: Guido Waldman
Contributor: Guido Waldman (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 185754482X
EAN: 9781857544824
ISBN: 9781857544824
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Release Date: 11/02/2000
Description: Generations of children have been brought up on La Fontaine's "Fables". Only an absent-minded or perversely liberal parent, however, would leave the same author's "Contes et nouvelles en vers" lying around the nursery. The first volume was published three years before the Fables started to appear. They were the fruit of his wicked delight in the tales he found in Boccacio's "Decameron", Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso", Rabelais and elsewhere. Marital misdemeanours, resourceful females, addled males, proved the inspiration for some richly inventive plotting. He retold the stories in his own words, commenting on them wryly as he went along.
Language: French
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 135mm
Item Weight: 488g
Book Series: Poetry Pleiade
Release Year: 2000

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