The Peacock Country

Title

en_US The Peacock Country

en_US An Asia Book

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US By P. Alston Waring

Creator

en_US Waring, P. Alston See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Bock, Vera

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:32Z

en_US 1998-12

en_US 1948

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:32Z

Date Issued

en_US 1948

Abstract

en_US This is a loving book of twenty-one short animal anecdotes from India. I have read the first eight. The common thread seems to be a form of pathetic fallacy, whereby the animals demonstrate feeling or activity we normally associate with humans. Thus in the first story a cobra has lived in a banyon tree on the property which a solitary man has cultivated. The cobra overhears the conversation indicating that the banyon will be cut down the following day. The farmer is very sorry to lose his tree and wonders what will become of the cobra. The next morning he finds the cobra cold and dead in front of the tree. In the second story, two elephants maneuver a dying elephant between them onto his legs and escort him to the shade, where he can lie down and die more comfortably. Each story is preceded by a very appealing black-and-white illustration, and there are also many simple monocolor line-designs along the way. There are five full-page illustrations: frontispiece, 15, 45, 63, and 86.

Identifier

en_US 4053 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79391

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The John Day Company, Inc.

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ10.3.W25 Pe 1948 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole