Download or read book The Complete Tales and Trifles of Jean de La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De la Fontaine's 'Contes et Nouvelles' (often misleadingly translated as 'Tales and Novels') are very different from his famous fables, being saucy stories in verse, mainly drawn from Italian sources. They were hugely popular in the seventeenth century for their literary raciness, and quickly translated into several languages, including English. This is a new edition (not a scan) of a complete early translation in two volumes; it includes nine modest black-and-white illustrations.