{"product_id":"folk-tales-of-bengal","title":"Folk-Tales of Bengal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThat necklace is the life of your son.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNot yet released.\u003c\/strong\u003e This edition is finished and in production. Write to the press and we will let you know the day it goes on sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinces and Rakshasa demons, clever youngest daughters, ghosts and talking birds, a life hidden away inside a necklace, the origin of opium and of rubies: the twenty-two tales in this book are the fairy stories of Bengal, told for a hundred generations by village women in the evenings and set down here, at last, in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLal Behari Day, a Bengali writer and minister, heard hundreds of these stories as a boy from an old story-teller in his village. Late in life, urged on by a friend, he tracked down the best tellers he could find and translated their tales exactly as they were spoken. \u003cem\u003eFolk-Tales of Bengal\u003c\/em\u003e (1883) is the result: one of the earliest and finest gatherings of Indian folklore, by turns eerie, funny, cruel, and wise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe complete collection, all twenty-two tales, with Day's collector's preface and his forty-seven explanatory notes on Bengali words and customs, freshly set behind an original mixed media cover illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLal Behari Day (1824–1892), collector and translator\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubtitle: Twenty-Two Bengali Tales\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe complete 1883 collection, with the collector's preface and notes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNorthlume Classic Library\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 198 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"JVB Atelier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44716891996202,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0228\/4330\/files\/folk-tales-of-bengal.jpg?v=1787372509","url":"https:\/\/northlume.org\/products\/folk-tales-of-bengal","provider":"Northlume ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}