Fables from Kaleeleh and Demneh
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Amir-Moez, Ali R.
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1962
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There are already two copies of "Penitence, or Kaleeleh and Demneh" by this translator. This is a 64-page stapled pamphlet about 10" x 7". There are thirty numbered stories, each with one or two rather crude black-and-white lithographs. The drawing on the front cover brings together several of the characters. The monkey fails to follow the carpenter's example of putting in a new peg before taking the old peg out; his tail gets caught between the pieces of lumber. The story of the camel's self-sacrifice is told as an example of stupidity (7-9). The turtle's question while flying to people shouting and laughing is "Are you jealous?" (11). The booklet's best illustration may be of the two men in the story of iron-eating mice (13). "The Monkey and the Alligator" is well told here. The alligator has a qualm of conscience on the way to his sick wife and admits his mission to the monkey (34-36). The final story of the four friends concludes strangely halfway, when the hunter has caught the turtle. The stories end often by quoting an "old saying," very few of which I recognize as an old saying in English. The typing of this book is uneven, with surprising spaces.
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Edwards Brothers
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12168 (Access ID)