Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine

By Norman R. Shapiro and Jean de La Fontaine

Book Overview

No less a poet than the great
Seamus Heaney said of Norman Shapiro's Fifty Fables of La Fontaine,
"It is a pleasure to open a book as sure and sly as these translations.
. . . He gets the tune right and the tone right, and manages to echo both
the folk wisdom and the poker-faced formality of the originals."
As surely as La Fontaine followed
Aesop, Shapiro has now made fabulous fifty more fables of the wonderful
La Fontaine--among them "The Hare and the Tortoise," "The
Old Man and the Ass," and "The Frogs Who Asked for a King."
David Schorr has just as captivatingly illustrated them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252066502
• ISBN13: 9780252066504
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.8"