The Monkey and the Crocodile and Other Fables from the Jataka Tales of India

Title

en_US The Monkey and the Crocodile and Other Fables from the Jataka Tales of India

Description

en_US Retold by Ellen C. Babbitt

Creator

en_US Babbitt, Ellen C. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Young, Ellsworth

Date

2018-07-05T18:38:14Z

en_US 2018-06

en_US 2015

Date Available

2018-07-05T18:38:14Z

Date Issued

en_US 2015

Abstract

en_US Here is a new edition by Dover that puts together two books published in 1912 and 1922, respectively, by Century. (Dover gives the date for the first as 1918.) This is a typically clean, well produced Dover book. I will repeat comments I made on the two. The first contains eighteen fables. These stories are clearly written for children. Some of the stories have more potential than is realized in these somewhat simplified and moralized tellings. "How the Turtle Saved His Own Life" (10) may be the best of a lot that is largely new to me. The glory of this book lies in the deft silhouette-like illustrations, one or two for each story. Outstanding examples of these are on 22, 47, 76, and 86. The second contains twenty-one fables, with a T of C before them. Again, I am taken first with the exquisite silhouettes. Notice the detail in the red-bud tree on 134, for example. Most of the stories are new to me. The fishes in The Three Fishes (108) are named as in the standard Kalila and Dimna story, but the story now has to do with one fish who saves two others from a net. The Golden Goose (121) presents a goose whose golden feathers turn white if they are plucked out against his wish. Furthermore, the new feathers that come in are not golden either. I like The Cunning Wolf (127). In it the wolf reveals a man playing dead by tugging at his weapon. The Woodpecker and the Lion (136) seems like a replay of WC.

Identifier

en_US 11328 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/118622

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Dover Publications

en_US Mineola, NY

Subject

en_US BQ1462.E5B35 2015 See all items with this value

en_US Jatakas See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value