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Title
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Aesop's Fables (Burmese)
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Description
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Language note: Burmese
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Translated by Min Yu Way & Ngwe Ta Yee
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Creator
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Way, Min Yu
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Contributor
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Kyi, U. Ba
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Wun, Min Thu (Introduction)
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Date
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2020-01-23T19:30:38Z
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2018-06
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1954
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Date Available
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2020-01-23T19:30:38Z
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Date Issued
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1954
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Abstract
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Here is a most unusual book. About its texts, I can say nothing except that there is a beginning T of C. The front cover presents a congeries of animal faces in color, appropriate for Aesop's fables. The book features full-page monochrome illustrations that are highly stylized and interpretative. Though I cannot find out more bibliographical information about this book, including where I found it, I do know that it won a Sarpay Beikhman translation award in 1954. Among the best of the twenty or so full-page illustrations, I would mention "The Bull and the Gnat" about halfway through the book (sorry, the pagination is in Burmese) and WL late in the book. Apparently there are 310 pages here. I believe that this Burmese-language book brings to 65 the total of languages represented in monolingual books in our collection. Ngwe Ta Yee is Min Yu Way's wife, and he himself is a recognized literary creator in Myanmar. This copy includes a pamphlet and a card in Burmese. What a great find!
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Identifier
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12177 (Access ID)
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Language
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my