Armenian Folk-tales and Fables

Armenian Folk-tales and Fables
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015032875844
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Download or read book Armenian Folk-tales and Fables written by Charles Downing and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These folk-tales were told by simple people--vine-dressers, farm-laborers, millers--and were preserved by word of mouth, to be repeated for entertainment in the coffee-house, or at home during the long, hard winters. There are fables here, too, selected from the collections of medieval scholars and philosophers, while the expressive and often humorous proverbs show the ways of the world through shrewd Armenian eyes.


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