TY - BOOK AU - La Fontaine,Jean de AU - Tilney,F.C. TI - The Original Fables of La Fontaine: Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney AV - PQ PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Fables, French -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fontaine%27s_Fables; Release date is 2005-05-30; Produced by Jason Isbell, Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Original Fables of La Fontaine" by Jean de La Fontaine is a collection of fables published between 1668 and 1694. Drawing from Western and Eastern sources, La Fontaine adapted 239 tales into French free verse across twelve books. These humorous and ironical fables feature animals and human characters, offering sharp insights into human nature and social commentary beneath their deceptively simple surfaces. Originally aimed at adults, they became required reading for French schoolchildren and remain classics of French literature, their phrases woven into everyday language. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15946 ER -