Fables by Jean de La Fontaine Groundswell Speaker 2024 After years of tension between

After years of tension between a king and his people

he could be a spectacular fraud

family and more

providence and friendship

leatherboundPublication: 2 Jan 2015

Fables by Jean de La Fontaine Groundswell Speaker 2024 After years of tension betweenSeventeenth 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