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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 the Country Mouse' - are ...

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Fables 2019, Hardpress Publishing

ISBN-13: 9780461123500

Trade paperback

Fables 2019, Hardpress Publishing

ISBN-13: 9781406907445

Trade paperback

Fables 2001, Childrens Classics, London

ISBN-13: 9781857155082

Revised edition

Hardcover

Fables Editions Flammarion, Paris

ISBN-13: 9782080700957

French

Paperback