Beastly Tales from Here and There
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Seth, Vikram
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2005
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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.
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Penguin Viking
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9894 (Access ID)