Complex sentence: As with all of his fables, "The Monkey and the Cat" is written in verse and appeared in La Fontaine's second compilation of "Fables", book IX, No.17, in 1679.
Split into simpler sentences: As with all of his fables, "The Monkey and the Cat" is written in verse. Additionally, it first was published in La Fontaine's second compilation of "Fables", book IX, No.17, in 1679.