Tales of Ancient India

Tales of Ancient India
Author: J.A.B. van Buitenen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2015-07-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 022623018X


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"This admirably produced and well-translated volume of stories from the Sanskrit takes the Western reader into one of the Golden Ages of India. . . . The world in which the tales are set is one which placed a premium upon slickness and guile as aids to success. . . . Merchants, aristocrats, Brahmins, thieves and courtesans mingle with vampires, demi-gods and the hierarchy of heaven in a series of lively or passionate adventures. The sources of the individual stories are clearly indicated; the whole treatment is scholarly without being arid."—The Times Literary Supplement "Fourteen tales from India, newly translated with a terse and vibrant effectiveness. These tales will appeal to any reader who enjoys action, suspense, characterization, and suspension of disbelief in the supernatural."—The Personalist


Tales of Ancient India
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: J.A.B. van Buitenen
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-24 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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"This admirably produced and well-translated volume of stories from the Sanskrit takes the Western reader into one of the Golden Ages of India. . . . The world
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Language: en
Pages: 38
Authors:
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)

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Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: San Diego Museum of Art
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher:

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Language: en
Pages: 65
Authors: Jessica Gunderson
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08 - Publisher: Capstone

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Language: en
Pages: 180
Authors: Adithi Rao
Categories: Children's stories, Indic (English)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Penguin Books India

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