Item
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)
- 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books