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 15th printing

en_US Vikram Seth

Creator

en_US Seth, Vikram

Contributor

en_US Shankar, Ravi

Date

2016-01-25T15:47:34Z

en_US 2013-07

en_US 2005

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:47:34Z

Date Issued

en_US 2005

Abstract

en_US This book was originally published by Phoenix House in 1993. Penguin Viking apparently began publishing the book in 2005. This copy is for distribution only in Singapore and on the Indian Subcontinent. I noted in that earlier publication a misspelling of serenade, which appears correctly here on 66. The ten tales seem the same here but the pagination is different. As I wrote there, one finds in this book ten well told, witty tales in verse including 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. 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 0670058440

en_US 9894 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76704

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Penguin Viking

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR9499.3.S38 B43 2005

en_US Collection

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole