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The fables of India / Joseph Gaer

By:

Gaer, Joseph

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1955Description: 176 p. : illus. ; 21 cmSubject(s):

Fables, India

DDC classification:

JUV 398.2 GAE

Summary: Neatly arranged tales from three of India's most prominent story collections- The Panchatantra, or, The Book of Five Headings; The Hitopadesa, or, The Book of Good Counsel; and The Jatakas, or, The Book of Buddha's Birth Stories - make a good introduction to Eastern mores for the westerner who will find many familiar themes. Mr. Gaer is widely known for his studies in world religious. His arrangement of the stories is an intelligent one that pieces together many of the stories within stories, modernizing their language slightly and generally unconfusing them for readers who could be put off by the winding plots of the originals. They are fun to read, the more so for the author's definition of a fable in the introduction.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Juvenil	Juvenil	JUV 398.2 GAE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011524

Neatly arranged tales from three of India's most prominent story collections- The Panchatantra, or, The Book of Five Headings; The Hitopadesa, or, The Book of Good Counsel; and The Jatakas, or, The Book of Buddha's Birth Stories - make a good introduction to Eastern mores for the westerner who will find many familiar themes. Mr. Gaer is widely known for his studies in world religious. His arrangement of the stories is an intelligent one that pieces together many of the stories within stories, modernizing their language slightly and generally unconfusing them for readers who could be put off by the winding plots of the originals. They are fun to read, the more so for the author's definition of a fable in the introduction.

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