Stories from Panchatantra, Book IV

Title

en_US Stories from Panchatantra, Book IV

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Shivkumar

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Biswas, Pulak

Date

2016-01-25T16:14:53Z

en_US 1996-03

en_US 1978

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:14:53Z

Date Issued

en_US 1969

Abstract

en_US Like Book II of the series (1966/78), this volume collects six good stories. The illustrations here rely on blue, brown, and a burnt red. Perhaps the best illustration shows the guest mosquito about to bite the king's neck (54-55); also good is the full cover picture of the chase after the blue jackal. There are two curious differences in the telling of standard stories here. The three thieves tell the man with the gift-goat that it is, respectively, a dog, a calf, and a donkey (18); I would have thought that the point of the story lies in the force of a repeated (not a varied) lie. And the mosquito finds in the king's bedroom a whole family of bugs that have been feeding on him undetected (49); Ramsay Wood's version speaks by contrast of The Bedbug and the Flea. The best story-twist comes in The Thief's Sacrifice (36). This book and its companion volume are among those things that may have wandered a long way to come into this collection.

Identifier

en_US 2284 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77842

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Children's Book Trust

en_US New Delhi

Subject

en_US PK3741.P3S7

en_US Panchatantra

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole