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 Shivkumar, K.

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:47Z

en_US 2013-01

en_US 1982

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:47Z

Date Issued

en_US 1969

Abstract

en_US This book is almost identical with another found some seventeen years ago. That copy of the 1969 original was printed in 1978, while this one was printed in 1982. The front cover here removes the distinctive red ink from the word Panchatantra in the title and adds a logo and New Delhi Chidlren's Book Trust to Lotus Books and its logo, both also changed from red to black. This copy adds an element to the bottom of the back cover: E 041 and a price of 11.50 Rupis. This price, by the way, has been crossed out and changed to 15 Rupis! Internally, I find only two differences on the verso of the title-page. The original price of 7.5 Rupis has been removed, and the two printings since 1978 have been added. As I wrote there, 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). These two books and their companion volume are among those things that may have wandered a long way to come into this collection.

Identifier

en_US 8909 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84119

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Children's Book Trust

en_US New Delhi

Subject

en_US PK3741.P3 S7

en_US Panchatantra

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole