The Crab and the Monkey, Andrew Lang
The Crab and the Monkey, Andrew Lang
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The Crab and the Monkey

Author: Andrew Lang

Narrator: Anastasia Bertollo

Unabridged: 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/29/2015

Synopsis

The Crab and the Monkey is a Japanese tale. A crab finds rice and wants to eat it. A monkey offers the crab to exchange the rice for a persimmon seed. The crab agrees, but then it understands that it was deceived. After that, the crab plants the seed and a fruit tree grows. One day the monkey passes by. The monkey offers to climb on the tree and to pick the fruit for the crab, but instead of that the monkey eats fruit and doesn't share it with the crab. The crab protests. The friends of the crab come to help it. The wasp cares for the crab, and it wants to punish the monkey. How did the story end? Read "The Crab and the Monkey" to know it.

About Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang (1844–1912), Scottish man of letters educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St. Andrews, and Balliol College, Oxford, became a prolific and versatile London journalist. He took a leading part in the controversy with Max Müller and his school about the interpretation of mythology and folk tales. He published several volumes of verse and several solid contributions to the study of the philosophy and religion of primitive man. He also wrote the four-volume History of Scotland, A History of English Literature, and many fairy-tale collections, as well as works on Homer, Joan of Arc, Scott, Lockhart, Mary Stuart, John Knox, Prince Charlie, Tennyson, and others.

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