India Folk Tales

Title

en_US India Folk Tales

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Original language: san

en_US Edited and Translated from the Sanskrit by A.L. Herman

Creator

en_US Herman, A.L. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Jarvis, Maggie

Date

2016-01-25T19:03:23Z

en_US 1996-12

en_US 1968

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:03:23Z

Date Issued

en_US 1968

Abstract

en_US Here is a great starter for someone wanting to read a few excellent tales from India. There are eighteen well-chosen and well-told stories here, along with nine lively and even gaudy illustrations featuring purple and orange. Several stories include stories. Thus TT (22) includes Three Fish and The Heron and the Mongoose, while The Cobra and the Crows (36) includes The Hare and the Lion. Particularly well told are The Mouse Who Became a Tiger (13) and The Donkey, the Dog and the Thief (19). The title-character in The Purple Jackal Who Became King (5) goes first to the jackals after his color has changed; that scenario seems hard for me to believe. Why would they accept him as a ruler? Among the best of the illustrations are The Purple Jackal (4), The Cobra and the Crows (37), and The Blind Vulture and the Cat (45). There is a nice twist in this last tale: When the other birds find the bones of their eaten children, they destroy not the cat, who has moved on at the first suggestion of suspicion, but the blind vulture who listened to the cat's I have got religion lies.

Identifier

en_US 4276 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79552

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Peter Pauper Press

en_US Mount Vernon, NY

Subject

en_US GR305.H3613 1968 See all items with this value

en_US India, Indian See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole