Beastly Tales from Here and There [Hardcover]

Vikram Seth (Author), Ravi Shankar (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1994

An attractively packaged gift book offers ten charming, elegant fables in verse from India, China, Greece, Ukraine, and the fantastic Land of Gup. By the author of A Suitable Boy.

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About the Author

Vikram Seth was born in 1952. He trained as an economist and has lived for several years each in England, California, China and India. He is the author of A Suitable Boy, which was an international number one bestseller, An Equal Music and several other novels. He has also written five volumes of poetry including Beastly Tales. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 130 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins (May 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060171154
• ISBN-13: 978-0060171155
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 4.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,602,316 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Beastly Tales" out of Print, AN INTERNATIONAL DISGRACE, January 19, 2001

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Daniel Plas "critical reader" (Nigeria) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beastly Tales from Here and There (Hardcover)

Everything is great about these poems. The rhymes are clever, beautiful and very often funny. In the tales the good wins from the bad, but after trial and tribulations, and always in unexpected ways. One of my favourite lines is about a goat and a ram: "They ate with pride as if to balance, their total lack of other talents". But quoting excellent lines would take about as long as the book itself.

These are not children's rhymes, but I read them to my sons of 10 and 13 years old and we all three have a great time.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PUBLISH THIS BOOK!, November 29, 1999

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Mr. Nobody "I-Read-1500-Pages-Per-Week" (far from the US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beastly tales from here and there (Paperback)

I wanted to buy this book for my nephews and nieces, but I am shocked to find it out of print. I believe it is in print in the UK, so I will try at amazon.co.uk but if it is not available there.... I strongly, urgently, furtively, unashamedly emplore you contact the publisher en masse, yelling PUBLISH THIS BOOK! with all your heart. It's a future classic by an great author.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful!, September 14, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Beastly Tales (Paperback)

Traditional stories from all over the world told in rhyming couplets. I am amazed at the rhymes that Vikram Seth came up with to tell these tales....and that he says he wrote the first poem becuase it was too hot to concentrate on his (real?) work!
I have this is hardcover. It's a keeper!