Hardcover
Timeless animal tales reveal human flaws with wit and charm.
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- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2001
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Summary
Seventeenth-century Frenchman Jean de La Fontaine happily plundered Aesop and other classical writers as a source for his witty, elegant fables, as well as inventing a number of his own. Seeking to expose the weaknesses of human nature, he offered vivid perspectives on greed and flattery, envy and avarice, love and friendship, old age and death. The sixty fables collected here - from ‘The Crow and the Fox’ and ‘The Cock and the Pearl’ to ‘The Grasshopper and the Ant’ and ‘The Town Mouse and t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857155082 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857155084 |
| Author: | Edward Marsh, R. de La Nézière, Jean de La Fontaine |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library Children's Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2001 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 156mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS |
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