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Once Again, La Fontaine: Sixty More Fables » (BOOK & CD)

Book cover image of Once Again, La Fontaine: Sixty More Fables by Jean de La Fontaine

Authors: Jean de La Fontaine
ISBN-13: 9780819564580, ISBN-10: 0819564583
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Date Published: November 2001
Edition: BOOK & CD

Author Biography: Jean de La Fontaine

NORMAN R. SHAPIRO is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Wesleyan University. He has translated many works of poetry, theater, and prose from the original French, including Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine (1997), The Fabulists French (1992), Fifty Fables of La Fontaine (1988), and Fables from Old French: Aesop's Beasts and Bumpkins (1982).

DAVID SCHORR, a printmaker, painter, and book designer, is Professor of Art at Wesleyan. His portraits of writers, artists, and musicians have appeared in The New Republic for many years. He has also illustrated Shapiro's The Fabulists French and La Fontaine's Bawdy.

JOHN HOLLANDER is A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English at Yale University and a chancellor of the American Academy of Poets. His most recent volume of poetry is Figurehead (1999).

Book Synopsis

New translations of classic French fables.

	Translator's Foreword
	Illustrator's Foreword
	Introduction
	The Swallow and the Little Birds	3
	Death and the Wretched Man, & Death and the Woodsman	7
	The Hornets and the Honeybees	11
	The Rats in Council Assembled	15
	The Ass with a Load of Sponges and the Ass with a Load of Salt	19
	The Astrologer Who Happens to Fall into a Well	23
	The Hare and the Frogs	27
	The Lion and the Ass Out Hunting	29
	The Drunkard and His Wife	31
	The Wolves and the Ewes	33
	Philomela and Procne	35
	The Drowned Wife	37
	The Weasel in the Larder	41
	The Shepherd and the Sea	43
	The Fly and the Ant	45
	The Gardener and His Lord	49
	The Ass and the Pup	55
	The War Between the Rats and the Weasels	57
	The Horse Who Sought Revenge on the Stag	61
	The Fox and the Bust	63
	The Oracle and the Infidel	65
	The Master's Eye	67
	The Lark, Her Little Ones, and the Farmer Who Owns the Field	71
	The Hare and His Ears	77
	The Old Woman and the Two Servants	79
	The Satyr and the Passerby	81
	The Horse and the Wolf	85
	The Ploughman and His Sons	89
	Dame Fortune and the Child	91
	The Hare and the Partridge	93
	The Eagle and the Owl	95
	The Shepherd and the Lion, & The Lion and the Hunter	99
	Phoebus and Boreas	103
	The Cockerel, the Cat, and the Little Mouse	107
	The Wagoner Stuck in the Mud	111
	The Charlatan	115
	The Wishes	119
	King Lion's Court	123
	The Man Who Runs After Fortune, and the Man Who Waits for Her in His Bed	127
	The Cat, the Weasel, and the Little Rabbit	135
	The Cobbler and the Financier	139
	Women and Secrets	143
	The Joker and the Fish	147
	The Rat and the Oyster	149
	The Ass and the Dog	153
	The Cat and the Rat	157
	The Two Dogs and the Dead Ass	162
	The Oyster and the Adversaries	165
	The Wolf and the Scrawny Dog	167
	All in Moderation	169
	The Fishes and the Cormorant	171
	The Spider and the Swallow	175
	The Fishes and the Shepherd Who Plays the Flute	177
	The Dream of the Man from Mogol Land	181
	The Wolf and the Fox	185
	The Mice and the Screech Owl	189
	The Treasure-Hoarder and the Ape	193
	The Eagle and the Magpie	197
	The Ape	199
	Notes and Bibliography	201
	Audio Compact Disc Contents	218