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La Fontaine fables : and other poems by Jean de La Fontaine; John Cairncross; et al is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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During his life John Cairncross was considered to be the best translator of Racines works, both from his ability to convey the feel of the original as well as through the accuracy of his translation. One critic has said that Mr. Cairncrosss translations are the only ones that arc both compulsively readable and capture the style as fairly as our language permits, praise echoed by others, including the New Statesman and Times Literary Supplement. In this collection from the French, Italian, Spanish, German and Chinese, Mr. Cairncross demonstrates his ability with great skill. In La Fontaines Fables, as in the other translations in this volume, he captures the mood in every case. Each poem appears in the original language as well as in English, and, ending with a number of John Cairncrosss own poems, this book is a true pleasure to read.

Author

Jean de La Fontaine; John Cairncross; et al

Publisher

Colin Smythe; C. Smythe

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780861401222

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities