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The Fables of Pilpay

LibriVox recording of The Fables of Pilpay by Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ. Read in English by April Mendis; Craig Campbell; czandra; Rebecca Eden Walker; Tasha C Mapes; plspark; Kingsnake; Monicha1; Christina Fu; Michael MacTaggert; Alan Mapstone; Hannah Dormor; Gini Pug; Ellies; Jonathan Gary; Mary in Arkansas; holtonhj64 ; Sandy Kurtz; Jennifer Louise; ThomasGibby These moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabic by a Persian named Ruzbeh who named it Book of Kalilah and Dimna and then by Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa and later Joseph Harris in 1679 and then remodeled in 1818. Max Mueller noted that La Fontaine was indebted to the work and other scholars have noted that Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont and John Fletcher were both familiar with the fables. The Fables of Pilpay are a series of inter-woven fables, many of which deploy metaphors of anthropomorphized animals with human virtues and vices. (Summary by The introduction and Wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox c

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