La Fontaine es uno de los poetas más personales de toda la literatura francesa a la vez que uno de los más inclasificables de ella. Se burla del Papa, de la Iglesia y los sacerdotes, adorando la voluptuosidad, sin dejar a lo largo de toda...
Jean de La Fontaine was one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. Born in Château-Thierry in 1621, his literary career did not truly begin until he was in his thirties and spending most of his time in the French capital, Paris....
La Fontaine's witty and sophisticated animal fables are among the greatest poetic works in French. Christopher Betts's new translations match the inventiveness of the original. This generous selection, including half of the originals, is accompanied...
Jean de La Fontaine was one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. Born in Château-Thierry in 1621, his literary career did not truly begin until he was in his thirties and spending most of his time in the French capital, Paris....
De la Fontaineâs âContes et Nouvellesâ (often misleadingly translated as âTales and Novelsâ) are very different from his famous fables, being saucy stories in verse,...
Aims to transform the world's great fables into charming poems of originality, wit, and verve. The author depicts lions, frogs, donkeys, rats, insects, birds and wily foxes in situations that reveal the quirks, follies and frailties he observed in...
Allegations of satanic child abuse became widespread in north America in the early 1980s. In Britain shortly afterwards there were similar claims that sexual abuse, torture and murder were taking place as part of rites of witchcraft and devil worship Jean...