Beastly Tales

Title

en_US Beastly Tales

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Vikram Seth

Creator

en_US Seth, Vikram

Contributor

en_US Shankar, Ravi

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:12Z

en_US 1994-01

en_US 1993

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:12Z

Date Issued

en_US 1993

Abstract

en_US A strange find. This book was staring at me on the counter of a new book store that had nothing for me where I had stopped to ask about a reported (but non-existent) used book store in the neighborhood. Is that Ravi Shankar the Beatles' old friend or maybe someone named after him? Ten well told, witty tales in verse include two slightly expanded from Aesop but with different contemporary twists. The eagle dies of grief over the beetle's continual destruction of his eggs wrought out of vengeance for the beetle's old friend, the hare. And the female hare ends up losing the race but winning all the press acclaim. The other tales come two each from India, China, the Ukraine, and the Land of Gup. The Mouse and the Snake from China is a good fable with an ironic ending comment. The Cat and the Cock from the Ukraine uses repeated lines very well but has the misspelling seranade (70). In #9, the frog manager ruins the nightingale and never knows it. One black-and-white line sketch with each story, two with the last.

Identifier

en_US 1897580754

en_US 1698 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77266

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Phoenix House

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR9499.3.S38 B43 1993

en_US Collection

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole