The Original Fables of La Fontaine: Rendered Into English Prose (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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This translation (in which I gratefully acknowledge the assistance of my friend Mrs. A. H. Beddoe) is neither free nor literal. It sometimes amplifies a thought, much as a musician might amplify the har monies upon a master's figured bass. But even this is rarely done, and then only with a View to the youthful reader's pleasure and profit. With that View, further, the social and political introductions to the fables have been omitted, as well as the scientific discourses and the allusions to the unfortunate wars of Louis XIV. And other historical matters, all of which would have neither meaning nor interest but for grown-ups of a certain class.

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