Item
Madras Readers: The Second English Book
- Title
- en_US Madras Readers: The Second English Book
- en_US Madras Readers English Series
- Description
- en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Tamil
- en_US Second edition
- L Garthwaite
- Creator
- en_US Garthwaite, L. See all items with this value
- Date
- 2022-11-07T16:11:43Z
- 2021-04
- en_US 1883
- Date Available
- 2022-11-07T16:11:43Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1883
- Abstract
- en_US It is such a pleasure to order this book from old friends whom I have not seen in years! I see that I bought some twenty books or so from John and Anne Adye between 1994 and 2000. I will start with John and Anne description of this book: “Duodecimo blue cloth spine, with printed boards (corner missing). 242pp. Many fables with Tamil translations, questions & exercises on them, most with one or more imitative stories, i.e., fables in which the protagonist animals are changed.” I happened across two examples of such changes. On 120, two birds argue over a fallen piece of fruit and, bring it to a monkey for judgment. Of course the monkey eats the fruit! This is the fable more commonly told using an oyster and three humans. On 128, a fable titled "The Jackdaw and the Peacocks" is really about a jackal that has himself painted with leopard spots. The leopards pick up his foul smell and drive him out. The jackals do not recognize him on his return, and they tear him to pieces. This is our first bilingual Tamil book, but not our first Tamil book.
- Identifier
- en_US 12577 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng|tam
- Publisher
- en_US Government Book Depot
- en_US Madras (Chennai), India
- Subject
- Various See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books