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Carregando... Tales from Indiade J. E. B. Gray
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Beautifully retellings of classic stories from India.Sources in selecting the stories have been Sanskrit and Pali, the classical languages of the Brahmans and the Buddhists. This is a collection of Indian myths and folktales retold by Gray. It includes a section on the famour Indian myth, The Ramayana about Rama and his wife Sita The stories were mostly short focusing on morals and moral judgements which seem to be the focal point for a good upbringing. In these tales the good usually(not always!) won and the wicked were punnished for succuming to greed, counting their blessings before they had them in their hands and being false. My favourite tale was a very short one called Mousey the Merchant which was about a merchant who began a very prosperous business by selling a dead mouse and it snow balling from there! I also really enjoyed the final series of tales The Vetala's Stories which was three stories within a larger one. It had some interesting challenges which made the reader think along with the King in the tale. Overall I really enjoyed this book, especially all the animal tales. The animals were not the usual Western animals and included vultures and a mongoose which made it a little different. I also enjoyed the involvement of the gods in the tales as well as demons and fairies and some wicked people being able to find redemption mixed in amongst those who deserved their fates. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Indian Tales and Legends is a book of contrasts: there are simple folk tales about cats, mice and tortoises, about a tiger of very great cunning, and a jackal who dyed himself blue. There are strange legends of ten-headed demons, of rogues and villains, of splendid kings ruling from jewelled thrones, the air around them heavy with the scent of flowers. And at the heart of the book is the great Indian epic The Ramayana: the marriage of Rama and Sita, the loss of Sita, and of how the monkey god Hanuman went in search of her. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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