Beastly Tales from Here and There

By Vikram Seth

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Beastly Tales from Here and There (1992) retells ten animal fables in Vikram Seth's rhyming verse. Two each come from India, China, Greece and Ukraine, and the last two are his own inventions. The tales include "The Crocodile and the Monkey," "The Mouse and the Snake" and "The Frog and the Nightingale," and each turns on cleverness, vanity or misplaced trust. The book is meant for adults and children alike.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “And Vikram Seth, whose most astonishing work is a novel in verse, “The Golden Gate,” written in iambic tetrameter and modeled on Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin.” As you read it, you are charmed by the story while still aware and in awe of Seth’s talent.”