Features folktales with motifs that appear in European stories, but are thought to have originated in India
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Reminiscent of "The Arabian Nights," brave heroes and virtuous heroines triumph over the forces of evil, often with fantastical or comic results.
Edward Hower teaches English and third world literature at Ithaca College and Cornell University. He has recently returned from India where he was a Fulbright lecturer. Hower recorded the tales in this collection in
1986-7 when he was in India as an Indo American Senior Research Fellow. Edward Hower received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Education from Makerere University in Uganda, and an M.A. in social anthropology from the University of California in Los
Angeles. He is the author of two novels The New Life Hotel and Wolf Tickets and numerous short stories, essays, and reviews.
M. K. Mukerjee, a graduate of Alahabad University, is a retired teacher and school administrator in Jaipur, India.
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