Beastly Tales from Here and There

Title

en_US Beastly Tales from Here and There

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Second printing?

en_US Vikram Seth

Creator

en_US Seth, Vikram

Contributor

en_US Shankar, Ravi

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:20Z

en_US 2012-11

en_US 1992

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:20Z

Date Issued

en_US 1992

Abstract

en_US Here is an earlier version of a book I had already found in a different hardbound and paperback format. Those later versions came from Phoenix House in 1993 and 1994, whereas this comes from Viking in India in 1992. The format is larger and the illustrations are not only larger but more distinct. As I wrote there, the book offers ten well told, witty tales in verse that 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. The dust-jacket here offers a colored version of the first fable's sexy crocodile and the back cover a colored version of the frog manager and his stringed instrument, with a nightingale in the background. The bookseller describes it as a second printing, but I can find no indication of that in the book itself.

Identifier

en_US 9780670846573

en_US 8808 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84020

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Viking Penguin Books India

en_US New Delhi

Subject

en_US PR9499.3.S38 B43 1992

en_US Collection

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole