An international congress of animals resolves to tell its own story, and a menagerie of narrators follows: a hare, a Parisian bird seeking better government, a philosophical penguin, a dying ephemera, an old toad, a theatrical critic, a rat, a beetle and an African lion visiting Paris. Balzac, George Sand, Musset and others wrote the original tales.
A witty French satire on human society in an English adaptation, famous for Grandville’s illustrations. Download the free EPUB.