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Authors: Jean de La Fontaine, Jean-Noel Rochut (Illustrator), C. J. Moore
ISBN-13: 9780863155710, ISBN-10: 0863155715
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Floris Books
Date Published: October 2006
Edition: NEW

Author Biography: Jean de La Fontaine

Book Synopsis

Translated From The French by Elizur Wright.

Children's Literature

In the late 1920s, Marc Chagall was commissioned to illustrate the fables of the French poet Jean de La Fontaine. Fortunately, almost 70 years later, the results of that incomparable pairing are made available to the English-speaking public in book form. Marc Chagall's Fables of La Fontaine includes 43 fables, many of them familiar ("The Fox and the Grapes," "The Horse and the Ass") since La Fontaine often put his own witty spin on Aesop's work. The exuberance and rich color of Chagall's gouaches are echoed in the typography and layout. Words (some in color) dance, spin, and leap across the page rather than marching in the usual left-to-right, precise black lines.

	The fables project
	La Fontaine : from animal allegory to tragic vision
	The grasshopper and the ant	2
	The frog and the ox	4
	The beggar's bag	6
	The man and his image	8
	The dragon with many heads and the dragon with many tails	10
	Death and the woodcutter	12
	The man between two ages and his two mistresses	14
	The child and the schoolmaster	16
	A council convened by the rats	18
	The wolf brings the fox to trial before the monkey	20
	The two bulls and a frog	22
	The bird wounded by an arrow	24
	Sponge donkey, salt donkey	26
	The dove and the ant	28
	The hare and the frogs	30
	The crow who wanted to imitate the eagle	32
	The cat transformed into a woman	34
	The limbs and the stomach	36
	The swan and the cook	38
	The wolves and the ewes	40
	The drowned woman	42
	The donkey and the little dog	44
	The man and the wooden idol	46
	The camel and the floating sticks	48
	The frog and the rat	50
	The horse who wanted to take revenge on the stag	52
	The clay pot and the iron pot	54
	The ears of the hare	56
	The old woman and the two servant girls	58
	The mountain giving birth	60
	The hare and the tortoise	62
	The hound who left his prey for a shadow	64
	The charlatan	66
	The animals sick from the plague	68
	The poorly married man	71
	The rat who retired from the world	74
	The milkmaid and the pot of milk	76
	The cat, the weasel and the little rabbit	78
	Death and the dying man	81
	The man and the flea	84
	Women and the secret	86
	The pig, the goat and the sheep	88
	The horoscope	90
	The pasha and the merchant	93
	The advantage of knowledge	96
	The wolf and the hunter	98
	The monkey and the leopard	101
	The sculptor and the statue of Jupiter	104
	The oyster and the litigants	106
	The wolf and the skinny dog	108
	The candle	110
	The monkey and the cat	112
	The shepherd and his flock	114
	The fish and the cormorant	116
	The digger and his godfather	118
	The fish and the shepherd who played the flute	120
	The farmer, the dog and the fox	122
	The dream of an inhabitant of Mogol	125
	Epilogue	128
	The cat and the two sparrows	130
	The two goats	132
	The fox, the wolf and the horse	134
	The elephant and Jupiter's monkey	136
	Philemon and Baucis	138
	The matron of Ephesus	143