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Nine tales, selected and retold here by anthropologist and author Theodora Kroeber for the adult general-interest reader. The new foreword by her son, Karl Kroeber, provides context about the author's methods and describes his own personal connection to the stories themselves.
| ISBN | 0520246934 | | Pages | 212 | | ISBN13 | 9780520246935
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton | | Weight (grammes) | 257 | | Imprint | University of California Press | | Published in | CA | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780520006768 | | Publication date | 05 Dec 2005 | | Height (mm) | 203 | | Writer of foreword | Karl Kroeber | | Width (mm) | 133 | | Library of Congress | 2005041873 | | Spine width (mm) | 12 | | DEWEY | 398.2 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| | | Foreword by Karl Kroeber | | | | | | The inland whale | | 5 | | | | Loon woman | | 29 | | | | Butterfly man | | 57 | | | | Dance mad | | 65 | | | | Love charm | | 75 | | | | Umai | | 79 | | | | About-the-house girl | | 87 | | | | Tesilya, Sun's daughter | | 109 | | | | The man's wife | | 129 | | | | Some qualities of Indian stories | | 143 |
"These stories enlarge life. They remind us of Shakespeare and Aeschylus.... That Mrs. Kroeber's book should generate such thoughts is proof of its power and beauty." - New York Times Book Review "Thanks to Mrs. Kroeber's simple, supple style, the stories all succeed as stories; they please, engage, move, or divert without depending for their effect on their exotic source." - The New Yorker "This is a jewel of a book." - San Francisco Chronicle"  Be the first to write a customer review
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