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III.4 The cunning mediator III.4 III.1.1 121BBB III.3 I.4 The ascetic and the bad world III.1.1.1 How Shishupala died in the hands of Krishna III.2 The Brahmin, the goat and the three crooks III.5 I.13 121C III.4 IV.10; IV.11 The king cobra and the ants III.5 The cobra and the greed for the gold coins 285D [12] III.6 The golden bird III.7
According to the story told in the Shāh Nāma (The Book of the Kings, Persia's late 10th-century national epic by Ferdowsi), Borzuy sought his king's permission to make a trip to Hindustan in search of a mountain herb he had read about that is "mingled into a compound and, when sprinkled over a corpse, it is immediately restored to life."
The story itself is considered a performance so there is a synergy among the aforementioned elements. [1] In the story, the narrator may draw attention to the narrative or to himself as storyteller. [2] The structure often includes the following: Tell riddles to test the audience. Audience becomes a chorus and comments on the story.
The Phantom Tollbooth is a children's fantasy adventure novel written by Norton Juster, with illustrations by Jules Feiffer, first published in 1961.The story follows a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth that transports him to the once prosperous, but now troubled, Kingdom of Wisdom.
The Village by the Sea: an Indian family story is a novel for young people by the Indian writer Anita Desai, published in London by Heinemann in 1982.It is based on the poverty, hardships and sorrow faced by a small rural, community in India.
The book was originally titled Strangers from Within, which was considered "too abstract and too explicit" [7] and was eventually changed to Lord of the Flies. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Editor Charles Monteith worked with Golding on several major edits, including removing the entire first section which described an evacuation from nuclear war .
The Immortals of Meluha is the first book of Amish Tripathi, first book of Amishverse, and also the first book of Shiva Trilogy. The story is set in the land of Meluha and starts with the arrival of the Shiva. The Meluhans believe that Shiva is their fabled saviour Neelkanth.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville.The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.