Moral Stories

Title

en_US Moral Stories

Description

en_US Retold by Antara Mukherjee

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Chattopadhyay, Goutam

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:03Z

en_US 2012-04

en_US 2009

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:03Z

Date Issued

en_US 2009

Abstract

en_US This small-format (4¾ x 7) paperback book of 128 pages is in a series with two others that I have, Stories from the Panchatantra and Aesop's Fables. Editors differ for each volume but the artists for both the interior and the cover remain the same. There are here some thirty-four fables, each with a full-page black-and-white line drawing. Some also have a smaller detail from that page in a circle. The stories come from Kalila and Dimna, Aesop, and some sources that I do not recognize. The typos continue to occur in this volume, as they had in Stories from the Panchatantra. Notice, for example, descirbe on 23 and the meaningless shifts of tense on 25. Stories new to me include The Drummer's Son (31) and The Happy Monk (60). The Woodcutter's Foolish Son (35) seems to derive from The Gardener and the Bear. The Liar Cowherd transforms BW by by using cattle and a tiger (81). MM becomes The Old-Vendor and His Dream World (91). The illustration for this adaptation of MM might be one of the liveliest in the book. How does the capseller in The Capseller and the Monkeys (53) wheel his barrow…through lakes? That we are dealing with an updated version of fables comes clear in the first line of this fable: Two cats managed to steal a hunk of pizza from a pizza hut (99). A colored illustration of FG is on the cover of this paperback.

Identifier

en_US 818551349X

en_US 7665 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82924

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Book Club

en_US Kolkata, India

Subject

en_US PN989.I5 B4 2009 See all items with this value

en_US Panchatantra See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole