Author: Herbert Van Thal
Compilor: Herbert Van Thal
Publisher: Jaico
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 273
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8124200726
Description
This volume contains famous tales and stories from Arabia, Burma, Ceylon, China, India, Japan etc. In collecting the stories from so many countries within one volume, selection has been governed in principal by the attractiveness and intrinsic value of the tale as well as variety and its indigenous quality.
Contents
ARABIA
The Sleeper and the Waker
The Tailor and the Lady and the Captain
BURMA
Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp
CAMBODIA
The Story of the Man with a Knife
CEYLON
The Thief and His Son
CHINA
Miss Ying-Ning, or the Laughing Girl
The Courtesan
The Three Dedicated Chambers
EGYPT
The Peasant and the Workman
The Story of Arab-Sandiq
INDIA
(Sanskrit):
Four Tales from the Panchatantra
The Thief who Laughed and Wept
(Vernacular):
The First Tale from the Dravidian Nights Entertainment
The Farmer, His Wife, and the Open Door
A Story of the Wonderful Mang-Fruit
A Bear Marries a Girl
The Hungry Stones by Rabindranath Tagore
JAPAN
The Eta Maiden and the Hatamoto
The Hojoki
The Young Tattooer by Jun-Ichero Tanizaki