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Ramsay Wood

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Extraordinary Voyages of the Panchatantra https://ramsaywood.com/media/

Ramsay Wood is the author of two sui generis modern novels which aim — with inter-connected frame-story narratives — to capture the ancient (pre-literate) oral story-listening drama of multicultural animal fables mimed and declaimed along the Silk Road since the time of the Buddha.

His two books blend The Jatakas Tales, The Panchatantra and the brief (fourth century BCE) role of Alexander the Great's Hellenization legacy in "bringing the Aesopian tradition to North India and Central Asia".

Wood's Kalila and Dimna Vol 1 — Fables of Friendship and Betrayal was first published by Knopf in 1980 as Selected Fables of Bidpai with an Introduction by Doris Le
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Ramsay Wood Hey, thanks for your message and hospitality, Ms Maldonado! I recently read Miriam Franks "My Innocence Abroad" which describes her amazingly colourfu…moreHey, thanks for your message and hospitality, Ms Maldonado! I recently read Miriam Franks "My Innocence Abroad" which describes her amazingly colourful & culture-shocked 1940s childhood while she and her mother were on the run from the Nazis (Spain to France to Morocco to Mexico) surviving by the skin of their teeth:
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Depends where/how you define the cultural "start-point" of this collection. If you accept India, then Pancha means "five". He…more
Thanks for your question.

Depends where/how you define the cultural "start-point" of this collection. If you accept India, then Pancha means "five". Here's the long answer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchat...

If you're only tracking the Arabic classic, then you'll see under the above link's subtitle "Mid. Persian and Arabic versions" that Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (a Persian convert) inserted a new one (making the total six), telling of Dimna's trial.

I wrote about this subject here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

which is also reprinted (with an extra afterword) in
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“I am the slave of what I have spoken, but the master of what I conceal.”
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