The Complete Fables of La Fontaine - A New Translation in Verse

Informationen zum Autor Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695) is the author of the four-volume Tales and Novels in Verse, but it was the Fables, which went through thirty-seven printings in his lifetime, that brought him lasting fame.Craig Hill, an editor and architect, fell in love with la Fontaine's Fables in the mid-1950s when he was a young man. He and his wife, Heather, live in Lincoln, Massachusetts.Edward Sorel is one of America's ?nest artists and satirists. He lives in New York City. Klappentext Full of life, an excellent rendering, and a pleasure to read. Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Zusammenfassung In this wonderful, vigorously contemporary translation, Craig Hill has captured the liveliness, satiric wit, and poetic beauty that made Jean de la Fontaine famous during his lifetime and his Fables celebrated as a masterwork of world literature ever since.

Product details

• Authors: Jean De La Fontaine, Jean De La Fontaine, Jean de La Fontaine, Edward Sorel
• Assisted by: Edward Sorel (Illustration), Craig Hill (Translation)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2011
• EAN: 9781611453447
• ISBN: 978-1-61145-344-7
• Series: Arcade Classics; Arcade Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature