Indian Fairy Tales

by Joseph Jacobs

Especially selected and retold to offer the best of India, these stories speak of snow-capped mountains, meandering rivers, the oceans, the blue heavens, the exquisite flora and fauna, and characters from paupers to princes.  The tales of courage and sacrifice, love and adventure, magic and death offer both spellbinding entertainment as well as answers to fundamental questions of life.

The majority of tales in this volume have been known in the West in some form or another, and the problem arises how to account for their simultaneous existence in furthermost West and East. This book is a representative collection of the fairy tales of India gathered through the kindness of the original collectors or their publishers.