The Haughty Toad and Other Tales from Bali

Title

en_US The Haughty Toad and Other Tales from Bali

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Selected and Retold by Victor Mason

Creator

en_US Mason, Victor See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Artists of Pengosekan, Bali

Date

2016-01-25T20:00:18Z

en_US 2010-12

en_US 1975

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:00:18Z

Date Issued

en_US 1975

Abstract

en_US This large-format (12 x 12) picture-book contains ten short stories and one last seventeen-page story. Each has one colored, ornate Balinese painting. Several among the first stories are either derived from or very close to fables. The Golden Axe (9) has only one round with the celestial being who offers the woodsman a golden axe when he has lost his normal axe from high above the waters. He moves away from her and falls asleep; when he awakes, she is proferring him a steel axe. The Sanctimonious Stork (13) makes himself a religious figure and then proclaims danger, from which he will save the fish by transporting them to the promised land. As in Kalila and Dimna, a crab chokes the stork when he sees the remains of the fish that the stork has eaten. Four Wayward Sons (17) is the Aesopic Bundle of Sticks. The Mocked Turtle (19) is TT. The two geese fly all night and are getting ready to land, when a scrawny, scabby, cunning pyedog sees them and insults the flying turtle. The latter of course immediately snaps back. King Crow and Pyedog (27) is the Aesopic FC. In this case, the crow had a piece of choice carrion in his beak. When he opened his beak, he made a noise like the rasp of a saw on a split bamboo. One Good Dove Deserves Ant's Succour (33) is the Aesopic AD. The attacker in this case was a farmboy with a bamboo blow-pipe and poisoned darts. As for the ant, after she saved the dove, the boy squashed her flat! A Pretty Kettle of Fish (37) is a version of Wise Fish, Clever Fish, and Stupid Fish. The second survivor here is not as clever as he usually is in the Kalila and Dimna version.

Identifier

en_US 0660073858

en_US 7037 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82315

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US PT Bali Art Print/H. Paul Hamlyn

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.M388 Hau 1975 See all items with this value

en_US Bali See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole