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Once Again, La Fontaine: 60 More Fables (Wesleyan Poetry with Audio CD)

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Title: Once Again, La Fontaine: 60 More Fables (Wesleyan Poetry with Audio CD)
by Jean De LA Fontaine, David Schorr, John (Frw) Hollander, Norman R. Shapiro
ISBN: 0-8195-6458-3
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $19.95
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Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: English Audio Interpretation Stands by Itself
Comment: I really enjoyed the very original black & white graphics that accompanied each of the fables: the graphics alone are worth the price of this book including the English Audio CD of the translations. I played the CD by itself and I was mesmerized by the witty delivery that completely matches the original French satire. It would be a blast to see it done as a one-man stage show! Thanks for this excellent package!

Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful Stuff!
Comment: If you enjoy French literature in translation, you should already be familiar with the name of Norman Shapiro--one of our pre-eminent French-to-English translators. Quite simply, whatever Mr. Shapiro chooses to translate results in a highly enjoyable, entertaining addition to my French lit. bookshelf! If you find pleasure in Richard Wilbur's Moliere, Donald Frame's Montaigne and Rabelais, Richard Howard's Stendhal and Baudelaire, Burton Raffel's Chretien, or Merwin's Song of Roland--then you owe it to yourself to investigate Shapiro's La Fontaine translations--four volumes to date: "Fifty Fables" and "Fifty More Fables" published by Illinois, "La Fontaine's Bawdy" published by Princeton, and the present book, "Once Again, La Fontaine" published by Wesleyan. These books are--alas!--one of the best-kept secrets of High French Literature to Read for Pleasure.

Also, Shapiro has translated volumes of Verlaine and Baudelaire for the University of Chicago press (two very handsome paperback editions), and do be on the lookout for his edition of Ronsard/Marot/Bellay from Yale University Press!

Rating: 5
Summary: The annotation left off the best part!
Comment: The publisher's annotation fails to mention *anywhere* that the CD included with the disc features 26 fables read by actor Douglas Sills, of Broadway's The Scarlet Pimpernel fame. He does a delightful job of interpreting various characters.

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