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The French poet and man of letters Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was one of the great French classical authors. He preferred to work in relatively minor and unexploited genres, such as the fable and the verse tale. While he did not hesitate to borrow f...

Jean de La Fontaine is best known for his Fables choisies, mises en vers (Selected Fables, Put into Verse), published in twelve books from 1668 to 1693. Comprising more than two hundred short poems divided more or less evenly among the books, the collect...

Reading Undercover: Audience and Authority in Jean de La Fontaine. By ANNE L. BIRBERICK. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 160 pp. 27 [pounds sterling]. Anne Birberick approaches La Fontaine from an interesting and original angle, classifying his work...

With apologies to Isaak Walton (1668), another classic, "The Compleat Darcy" (1856), is now available and translated into English by Bobeck (2004). Like avid fisherman love The Compleat Angler, ground water and surface water hydrologists, water resources engineers, water planners and managers, and historians...