The Fables of La Fontaine: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Fables of La Fontaine, credited to Jean de La Fontaine, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Fables of La Fontaine by Jean de La Fontaine. (Translated by Walter Thornbury.) Read in English by RogerMathewson; tovarisch; Sonia; Kalynda; Mary Escano; Pierre Delcourt; PatsyAnn; Brian Naylor; Mayah; AEH; Rebecca Bourque; Kurt; SwapMerl; Eva Davis; Greg Giordano; thestorygirl; Nemo; Jason in Panama; BettyB; Anthony Castellani Jean de la Fontaine's fables were very well-known all over Europe during his life, and are now slowly being rediscovered. This edition contains 240 fables or fairy tales and a biography of Jean de la Fontaine and Aesop, containing the most well-known fables in existence, as well as some lesser-known fables and stories. Walter Thornbury's translation furthermore sets the fables into memorable rhymes. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Fables of La Fontaine
• Author credits: Jean de La Fontaine
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 127
• Listed recording duration: 11:57:31

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• animals
• poem
• fables
• aesop
• France
• 1886
• 2017

Opening tracks: first 24 of 127

1. 001 - An Essay on the Life and Works of Jean de la Fontaine, part 1 — 25:26
2. 002 - An Essay on the Life and Works of Jean de la Fontaine, part 2 — 29:35
3. 003 - The Life of Aesop, the Phrygian, part 1 — 27:52
4. 004 - The Life of Aesop, the Phrygian, part 2 — 27:13
5. 005 - Dedication to Monseigneur the Dauphin — 7:17
6. 006 - Preface — 22:00
7. 007 - To Monseigneur the Dauphin — 1:25
8. 008 - Fables I and II — 2:37
9. 009 - Fables III and IV — 2:08
10. 010 - Fables V and VI — 3:08
11. 011 - Fables VII and VIII — 4:03
12. 012 - Fables IX and X — 2:49
13. 013 - Fables XI and XII — 4:14
14. 014 - Fables XIII and XIV — 2:25
15. 015 - Fables XV and XVI — 7:27
16. 016 - Fables XVII and XVIII — 3:52
17. 017 - Fables XIX and XX — 3:54
18. 018 - Fables XXI and XXII — 5:07
19. 019 - Fables XXIII and XXIV — 3:11
20. 020 - Fables XXV and XXVI — 3:24
21. 021 - Fables XXVII and XXVIII — 4:20
22. 022 - Fables XXIX and XXX — 2:46
23. 023 - Fables XXXI and XXXII — 5:02
24. 024 - Fables XXXIII and XXXIV — 2:50

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