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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 ...more

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	Kalila and Dimna #1 - The Panchatantra Retold (book 1 and 2 of 5) by Ramsay Wood (Goodreads Author), Doris Lessing (Introduction), Margaret Kilrenny (Illustrator) 4.18 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 300 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kalila and Dimna, Vol 2 — Fables of Conflict and Intrigue by Ramsay Wood (Goodreads Author), Gillian Whitworth (Illustrator), Michael Wood (Introduction) 4.24 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cat May Look at a King: & Seven Other Stories to Tell Your Cat 3.98 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A Cat May Look at a King & 8 Other Stories to Tell Your Cat 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kalila and Dimna by Ramsay Wood (Goodreads Author), Margaret Kilrenny (Illustrator), Doris Lessing [Nobel Literature Laureate 200 (Introduction) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conflito e Intriga: Contos de Kalila e Dimna by Ramsay Wood (Goodreads Author), Giliian Whitworth (Illustrator), Michael Wood (Introduction) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kalila et Dimna (vol 2) : Conflits et intrigues (Carnets DDB) (French Edition) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kalila e Dimna, Vol. 1 by Ramsay Wood (Goodreads Author), Margaret Kilrenny (Illustrator), Daniela Daniela Buzzi (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	KALILA AND DIMNA: - Fables of Friendship and Betrayal [Paperback] [2008] (Author) Ramsay Wood, Doris Lessing by Ramsay Wood (Goodreads Author), Doris Lessing 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I am the slave of what I have spoken, but the master of what I conceal.”
― Ramsay Wood, Kalila and Dimna #1 - Fables of Friendship and Betrayal

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“The world is a nectar-filled cup And we but gobbling flies. Some hang on the lip and modestly sup While others gorge up to their eyes.”
― Ramsay Wood, Kalila and Dimna #2 - Fables of Conflict and Intrigue

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“The map is not the territory. You have to experience the journey, not predetermine it with your frankly useless assumptions about what it might or might not entail.”
― Ramsay Wood, Kalila and Dimna #2 - Fables of Conflict and Intrigue

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“Translation is at best an echo.”
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“Life ain't all you want but it's all you got. Stick a flower in your hat and be 'appy.”
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“The nightingale which cannot bear the thorn, it is best that it should never speak of the rose.”
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“The answer to the existence of a fool is silence.”
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