The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (Paperback)
Translated from the French by Norman R. Shapiro.
$25, 504 pages, University of Illinois Press
Reviewed by Brigitte Tournier

A Herculean task of translation performed with panache.
When Jean de la Fontaine set out in 1668 to “Sow the seeds of virtue…and to amuse” the Sun King, Louis [...]