Folk-Tales of Bengal

Great stories and pictures, this slaps for 1883 and has no duds! I'm rounding up my rating to a 5 because the better stories are also more memorable. Here's the individual ratings I gave each short story: Life's Secret: 4 Phakir Chand: 4 The Indigent Brahman: 4 The Story of Rakshasas: 5, this was an epi......more

I read this at the same time as Indian Fairy Tales -- some comparisons included. A number of these will be recognizable to readers familar with European fairy tales as tale types, but little more than that. The differences are plentiful, of which the easiest to note is that the kings habitually have......more

Unfortunately I did not enjoy this book. It is a collection of folk tales collected and then written in English. Collections of stories are hard for me to rate and review, some are great and some less than than. I felt that too many of these folktales were too similar or too hard to follow. Although......more

I loved the illustrations. Some of the wording felt a bit weird, but the Hindu mythology was super interesting.......more

Interesting collection of short stories - full of kings, magical vehicles, poor brahmins, and rakshas. If you loved the tales in your childhood, these will just help you revisit that world One bad thing about the book is that some tales are repetitive. A segment can appear in multiple stories - eg a......more