Selected Fables by La Fontaine. Translated by Maureen Charlton. Illustrated by Graham Knuttel (PT85)

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Published 1995: First Martello Edition / Softcover / Brand New / Beautifully Illustrated throughout by Graham Knuttel

Original pictorial stiff card covers. 36 new pages. Another very scarce edition.(PT85)

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Selected Fables by La Fontaine. Translated by Maureen Charlton. Illustrated by Graham Knuttel

Aims to transform the world's great fables into charming poems of originality, wit, and verve. The author depicts lions, frogs, donkeys, rats, insects, birds and wily foxes in situations that reveal the quirks, follies and frailties he observed in humankind. He presents sins of pride, greed, and vanity under humorous attack.

Jean de la Fontaine (1621-95) freely plundered the works of Aesop, Phaedrus, Bidpai and others to transform the world's great fables into charming poems of astonishing originality, wit and verve. Here he depicts lions, frogs, donkeys, rats, insects, birds and wily foxes in situations that reveal the quirks, follies and frailties he observed in humankind. Sins of pride, greed and vanity come under humorous attack - a cunning fox tricks a crow out of his dinner, an arrogant hare loses a race to a steady tortoise, a merry cicada who sings all summer finds herself hungry in winter, and the goddess Juno scolds a peacock who covets a nightingale's song. But faith in human nature can also be found in poems such as those in which a wolf is saved from choking by a helpful stork, demonstrating an engaging belief in the possibilities of redemption. Google Books.