Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. I hope no one will imagine this to be a scientific book. It is meant to amuse children; and if it succeeds in this, its aim will be hit. Thus the stories here given, although grounded upon the great Buddhist collection named below, have been ruthlessly altered wherever this would better suit them for the purpose in...

This whimsical collection of tales is based on the Buddhist collection of J taka Tales. However, the author confesses to 'ruthlessly' altering them for the amusement of children and occasionally borrowing a 'phrase or a versicle'.
He opens the book with a warning;

"To this work I refer all scholars, folklorists and scientific persons generally: warning them that if they plunge deeper into these page, they will be horribly shocked."

These wonderful tales are accompanied by many beautiful and intricate black and white illustrations by W....

The Giant Crab. 4. The Hypocritical Cat. 7. The Crocodile and the Monkey. 9. The Axe, the Drum, the Bowl, and the Diamond. 13. The Wise Parrot and the Foolish Parrot. 22. The Dishonest Friend. 25. The Mouse and the Farmer. 28. The Talkative Tortoise. 31. The Monkeys and the Gardener. 33. The Goblin and the Sneeze. 36. The Grateful Beasts and the Ungrateful Prince. 39. The Goblin in the Pool. 43. The Foolish Farmer and the King. 45. The Pious Wolf. 47. Birds of a Feather. 48. Spend a Pound to Win a Penny. 51. The Cunning Crane and the Crab. 52. Union is Strength. 56. Silence is Golden. 59. The...

The Gourdification of Claudius the God has instant and lasting appeal. It is a uniquely surviving specimen of prose-and-verse satire from the Roman world - and satire, a Roman speciality, is one of the few types of ancient literature to survive, and thrive, in modern society. Its author, Seneca, was not only gifted with intellectual virtuosity, but, at the time of writing, was the precarious power behind the throne of the dangerously developing Nero. Claudius, the target of his malicious wit, remains the most controversial of the first twelve imperial Caesars.

This is W. H. D. Rouses 1863 English-language translation of "One Thousand and One Nights", a collection of South Asian and Middle Eastern folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. It was anthologised over hundreds of years by a variety of scholars, authors, and translators across Asia and North Africa, with the stories having roots in medieval Persian, Arabic, Mesopotamian, Jewish, Indian, and Egyptian folklore. Exquisitely illustrated by W. H. D. Rouse, this classic collection would make for perfect bedtime reading material and is not to be missed by lovers of folklore and classic...

This is W. H. D. Rouses 1863 English-language translation of "One Thousand and One Nights", a collection of South Asian and Middle Eastern folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. It was anthologised over hundreds of years by a variety of scholars, authors, and translators across Asia and North Africa, with the stories having roots in medieval Persian, Arabic, Mesopotamian, Jewish, Indian, and Egyptian folklore. Exquisitely illustrated by W. H. D. Rouse, this classic collection would make for perfect bedtime reading material and is not to be missed by lovers of folklore and classic...