Full of life, an excellent rendering, and a pleasure to read. Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695) is the author of the four-volume Tales and Novels in Verse, but it was the Fables, which went through thirty-seven printings in his lifetime, that brought him lasting fame.

Craig Hill, an editor and architect, fell in love with la Fontaine's Fables in the mid-1950s when he was a young man. He and his wife, Heather, live in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

Edward Sorel is one of America's ?nest artists and satirists. He lives in New York City.