The Old Man and the Ass
Jean de la Fontaine
Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Old Man and the Ass by Jean de La Fontaine. (There was no translator acknowledged in the text.) This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 7, 2013.
Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional languages.
According to Flaubert, he was the only French poet to understand and master the texture of the French language before Hugo. A set of postage stamps celebrating La Fontaine and the Fables was issued by France in 1995. (Summary by Wikipedia) (0 hr 10 min)
Chapitres
| The Old Man and the Ass - Read by AM | 1:23 | Lu par Maishwarya |
| The Old Man and the Ass - Read by BGH | 1:07 | Lu par Brett G. Hirsch |
| The Old Man and the Ass - Read by JCM | 1:17 | Lu par Jason Mills |
| The Old Man and the Ass - Read by JM | 1:13 | Lu par Jannie Meisberger |
| The Old Man and the Ass - Read by KAN | 1:13 | Lu par Kathleen Napholz |
| The Old Man and the Ass - Read by LAH | 1:17 | Lu par Lee Ann Howlett |
| The Old Man and the Ass - Read by LLW | 1:20 | Lu par Leonard Wilson (1930-2024) |
| The Old Man and the Ass - Read by RN | 1:29 | Lu par ravenotation |