'The pleasure is twice as sweetWhen you cheat a cheat.'An illustrated collection of fables from one of France's most vital writers. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series,
A lavish feast for the eyes, this reprint of a 1927 edition contains the original French verses plus new English translations. Witty interpretations of classic fables include "The Cicada and the Ant,"
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 c
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 ex
