Tales from the Panchatantra

Title

en_US Tales from the Panchatantra

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Leonard Clark

Creator

en_US Clark, Leonard

Contributor

en_US Roy, Jeroo

Date

2016-01-25T16:08:25Z

en_US 1994-08

en_US 1979

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:08:25Z

Date Issued

en_US 1979

Abstract

en_US I like this little book. Its eleven stories, many of which are in Kalila and Dimna, are enhanced with very sharp black-and-white and especially nice white-and-black illustrations. Many of the stories have a different twist here. The Mice and the Elephants (7) has the latter first removing themselves at the request of the former, then being caught in nets, and finally being freed by the mice. The Deer's Story (11) gets confused, I believe, on the question of who is possessed and beaten. Right-mind and Wrong-Mind (15, this edition does well with proper names) set up their deal differently: they will see whether the hidden money grows or shrinks. They make two withdrawals together. In the end, the onion-thief (21) goes through all three possible punishments; that is part of the story's irony, first clear to me here. The mouse himself tells his own story about the way Big-Rump, the guest, put an end to his stealing from Hairy-Ear the monk (27). The Heron and the Crab (37) is told less well than elsewhere. TT's illustration gets a record for the longest pole (44-45). The Monkey and the Crocodile (47) has some strange further episodes added at the end. The same happens in The Loyal Mungoose (59), where the woman puts the blame on the man.

Identifier

en_US 237449390

en_US 1984 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77547

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Evans Bros

en_US London

Subject

en_US PK3741.P3 C5 1979

en_US Panchatantra

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole