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Title
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India Folk Tales
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
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Original language: san
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Edited and Translated from the Sanskrit by A.L. Herman
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Creator
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Herman, A.L.
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Contributor
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Jarvis, Maggie
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:03:23Z
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1996-12
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1968
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:03:23Z
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Date Issued
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1968
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Abstract
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Here is a great starter for someone wanting to read a few excellent tales from India. There are eighteen well-chosen and well-told stories here, along with nine lively and even gaudy illustrations featuring purple and orange. Several stories include stories. Thus TT (22) includes Three Fish and The Heron and the Mongoose, while The Cobra and the Crows (36) includes The Hare and the Lion. Particularly well told are The Mouse Who Became a Tiger (13) and The Donkey, the Dog and the Thief (19). The title-character in The Purple Jackal Who Became King (5) goes first to the jackals after his color has changed; that scenario seems hard for me to believe. Why would they accept him as a ruler? Among the best of the illustrations are The Purple Jackal (4), The Cobra and the Crows (37), and The Blind Vulture and the Cat (45). There is a nice twist in this last tale: When the other birds find the bones of their eaten children, they destroy not the cat, who has moved on at the first suggestion of suspicion, but the blind vulture who listened to the cat's I have got religion lies.
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Identifier
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4276 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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The Peter Pauper Press
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Mount Vernon, NY
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Subject
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GR305.H3613 1968
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India, Indian
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole