NORMAN R. SHAPIRO is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Wesleyan University. He has translated many works of poetry, theater, and prose from the original French, including Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine (1997), The Fabulists French (1992), Fifty Fables of La Fontaine (1988), and Fables from Old French: Aesop's Beasts and Bumpkins (1982). DAVID SCHORR, a printmaker, painter, and book designer, is Professor of Art at Wesleyan. His portraits of writers, artists, and musicians have appeared in The New Republic for many years. He has also illustrated Shapiro's The Fabulists Fre...