The Style of La Fontaine's Fables (Language and Style series)
Author(s):
Biard, Jean Dominique
| Binding: | Hardcover |
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| Size: | 6 - 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | Yes |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | Good |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
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| Impression: | 1st Impression |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Basil Blackwell |
| Publication Year: | 1966 |
| Publication Place: | Oxford, UK |
| SKU: | 035023 |
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| Categories: | Literary History and Criticism |
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Catalogue(s):
Literary History and Criticism
First edition, first printing. xvii, 210pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth very slightly pushed at spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, price clipped, rubbed on edges, especially along upper edge, slight shelf worn.
Jean de La Fontaine's collected fables from a range of Eastern and Western sources, adapting them into French free verse; they were first published between 1668 and 1694. There are some 239 fables in all, some just a few lines long, others stretching to several hundred.
Keywords:
Literary Criticism
Fables
Jean De Al Fontaine
French Literature
