Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar

Tales from Thakurmar Jhuli

Twelve Stories from Bengal

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With translation of twelve stories from Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar's Thakurmar Jhuli, a classic collection of folk and fairy tales from Bengal, this collection attempts to recover and capture the fast-disappearing heritage of oral narration in India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 182mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9780198082200
• ISBN-10: 0198082207
• Artikelnr.: 35897324

Autorenporträt

Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar was a distinguished writer of stories for children in Bengali. One of his major contributions to Bengali literature is a four-volume compilation of Bengali folk and fairy tales, of which Thakurmar Jhuli (Grandmother's Bag of Tales) is the best loved.

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Note
Preface to the Original by Rabindranath Tagore
Introduction by Bharati Ray
'Kiranmala'
'Sheeth and Vasanth'
'Neelkamal and Lalkamal'
'Princess Kalavati'
'Manimala'
'The Champa Brothers'
'Dalim Kumar'
'Kanchanmala and Kankanmala'
'The Gold Wand and the Silver Wand'
'Sukhu and Dukhu'
'Brahman and Brahmani'
'Fox the Schoolteacher'