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The sun is able to achieve with his gentle warmth a task the north wind could not perform with all his strength

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9780192721686, titled "The North Wind and the Sun" | Oxford Univ Pr, June 25, 1987, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The sun is able to achieve with his gentle warmth a task the north wind could not perform with all his strength

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9780531015360 | Franklin Watts, June 1, 1964, cover price $5.90

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Product Description: First published in 1966, a story with a moral in which Hare and Tortoise decide to race one another.

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9780531015339 | Franklin Watts, June 1, 1967, cover price $6.90 | About this edition: First published in 1966, a story with a moral in which Hare and Tortoise decide to race one another.

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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 humankind. He presents sins of pride, greed, and vanity under humorous attack.

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9780140455243 | Penguin Classics, August 29, 2006, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Aims to transform the world's great fables into charming poems of originality, wit, and verve.
9780192837851 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | also contains Art and Disclosure: Seven Essays
9780486411064 | Dover Pubns, January 1, 2000, cover price $1.50 | About this edition: With their unique blend of wit and poetic mastery, the verse interpretations of Aesop’s Fables by 17th-century author Jean de La Fontaine have enchanted readers of all ages for over three centuries.
9780192824400 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 7, 1995, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: This lively new translation of the most famous among La Fonatine's celebrated fables captures the wit and nuances of the original, showing how La Fontaine deals with universal themes in a deeply human, wise, and yet irrepressibly humorous way.
9780486218786 | Dover Pubns, June 1, 1968, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: All the imagination, whimsy, and invention that have made Alexander Calder's mobiles and stabiles so popular.

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9788430504718 | Lectorum Pubns, June 1, 1973, cover price $7.95

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The La Fontaine fable, interpreted in a renowned illustrator's artwork, deals with choosing to be rich and worried or poor and carefree

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9780192796127 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1979, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: A bag of gold given to a poor but cheerful shoemaker by a rich man causes the cobbler so much worry that he returns it.

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The La Fontaine fable, interpreted in a renowned illustrator's artwork, deals with choosing to be rich and worried or poor and carefree

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9780192721044 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1980, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A bag of gold given to a poor but cheerful shoemaker by a rich man causes the cobbler so much worry that he returns it.

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Animal fables, including 'The Fox and the Grapes' and 'The Wolf and the Dog,' are retold in simple prose and vibrantly animated in detailed drawings

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9780690041484 | Ty Crowell Co, August 1, 1985, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: Animal fables, including 'The Fox and the Grapes' and 'The Wolf and the Dog,' are retold in simple prose and vibrantly animated in detailed drawings

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9780690041477 | Ty Crowell Co, September 1, 1981, cover price $12.89 | About this edition: Animal fables, including 'The Fox and the Grapes' and 'The Wolf and the Dog,' are retold in simple prose and vibrantly animated in detailed drawings

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Product Description: Book by La Fontaine, Jean de

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9780856352713 | Reissue edition (Carcanet Pr, October 1, 1981), cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Book by La Fontaine, Jean de

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Product Description: Cultural Studies, History

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9780140221244 | Penguin USA, March 1, 1986, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Cultural Studies, History

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Grateful to the lion for sparing his life, a rat promises to repay the kindness, and later, much to the lion's surprise, the rat is able to free him from a trap

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9780192796073 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 25, 1987), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A retelling of the La Fontaine fable in which a small rat is the only animal capable of saving the life of the King of the Beasts.

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Engravings enhance seventeenth-century French tales that, inspired by Aesop, offer moral lessons

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9780252015137 | Univ of Illinois Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Engravings enhance seventeenth-century French tales that, inspired by Aesop, offer moral lessons

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Product Description: The Contes et nouvelles en vers of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were published at various times throughout his life, both before and after his celebrated Fables, between 1664 and 1685, and even posthumously. In quite a different key from the more innocent Fables, the Contes often threatened to get him in trouble with both Church and Acadmie...read more

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9780691069562 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1992, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: The Contes et nouvelles en vers of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were published at various times throughout his life, both before and after his celebrated Fables, between 1664 and 1685, and even posthumously.

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9780691015323 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $29.95

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9780922852192 | Aims Intl Books Corp, December 1, 1993, cover price $3.50

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Chagall's gouaches illustrate forty-three of La Fontaine's fables, including 'The Fox and the Grapes' (view table of contents)
By Marc Chagall (illustrator), Jean De LA Fontaine and Elizur Wright (trans)

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9781565844049 | New Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Chagall's gouaches illustrate forty-three of La Fontaine's fables, including 'The Fox and the Grapes'

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Product Description: Following his first FIFTY FABLES OF LA FONTAINE as surely as La Fontaine followed Aesop, American Literary Translators Association award-winner Norman Shapiro now makes fabulous 50 more fables of the wonderful La Fontaine--among them The Hare and the Tortoise, The Old Man and the Ass, and The Frogs Who Asked for a King...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Jean De LA Fontaine, David Schorr (illustrator) and Norman R. Shapiro (trans)

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9780252023460 | Univ of Illinois Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: Following his first FIFTY FABLES OF LA FONTAINE as surely as La Fontaine followed Aesop, American Literary Translators Association award-winner Norman Shapiro now makes fabulous 50 more fables of the wonderful La Fontaine--among them The Hare and the Tortoise, The Old Man and the Ass, and The Frogs Who Asked for a King.

Product Description: A comic genius and a wicked delight--The Decameron revisited. Generations of children have been brought up on La Fontaine's fables. Only an absentminded or perversely liberal parent, however, would leave the same author's Contes et nouvelles en vers lying around the nursery...read more

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9781860464911 | Harvill Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A comic genius and a wicked delight--The Decameron revisited.

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The tortoise challenges the hare to a race, which the tortoise wins because of his persistence and the hare's carelessness.

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9780192723987 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Retells the events of the famous race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise.

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A bag of gold given to a poor but cheerful shoemaker by a rich man causes the cobbler so much worry that he returns it.

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9780192724021 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 20, 2000, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A bag of gold given to a poor but cheerful shoemaker by a rich man causes the cobbler so much worry that he returns it.

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Witchcraft continues to play a role in the modern European imagination and in its cultures. This book brings together studies of its most important modern manifestations, including a new history of English Wicca, and satanic abuse mythology.

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9780485890068 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 30, 2001, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Witchcraft continues to play a role in the modern European imagination and in its cultures.

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Product Description: Racy tales in verse based on stories in Boccaccio, Rabelais, Ariosto, and other classic writers, Jean de La Fontaine's Complete Tales in Verse are here translated for the first time since the nineteenth century. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780415936576 | Routledge, July 1, 2001, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Racy tales in verse based on stories in Boccaccio, Rabelais, Ariosto, and other classic writers, Jean de La Fontaine's Complete Tales in Verse are here translated for the first time since the nineteenth century.

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9780415936583 | Routledge, July 1, 2001, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Racy tales in verse based on stories in Boccaccio, Rabelais, Ariosto, and other classic writers, Jean de La Fontaine's Complete Tales in Verse are here translated for the first time since the nineteenth century.

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Product Description: For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays. Unique for their agile and ingenious narrative, these picaresque stories feature animals with voices and personalities whose stories humorously resolve problematic situations with a moral...read more

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9788489163584 | Jorge a Mestas Ediciones, October 31, 2001, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays.

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