by Jean de La Fontaine · Gallimard Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070383467
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«Fables» is the collection of verse fables by Jean de La Fontaine, published by Gallimard Editions in paperback (592 pages, in French).
Verse fables in which animals embody human customs, vices and virtues, with irony and a final moral, based on Aesop and popular tradition. It is a classic work of French literature, full of humour and social criticism.
Critical edition by Jean-Pierre Collinet, with the subtitle «texte intégral». The work was originally published in several volumes from 1668; this 1991 edition belongs to the Folio classique collection (no. 2246).
Recommended for students of French and readers of classic literature who want the complete work in its original language.
Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages.
