29 Indian Fairy Tales: With 53 Illustrations and 29 Free Online Audio Files.

Indian Fairy Tales is written by folklorist Joseph Jacobs and was first published in 1892. This e-book features twenty-nine stories taken from popular South Asian oral history. The stories are complimented by the original fifty-three full colour and black-and-white illustrations, which follow the story line.

Some scholars have stated that India is the original home of the fairy tale, and that all European fairy tales have been carried across by crusaders, Gipsies, Mongol missionaries, traders, Jews, and travellers. India is on one branch of the legendary Silk and Spice Routes, over which Europeans and Asians have been travelling for thousands of years. Many common fairy stories of Europe are derived from Indian tales. Comic tales and jingles can be traced without much difficulty back to Indian. Jacobs has selected the best from the Baluchi folk-tales, the Jatakas, the Bidpai, the Tales of the Sun, and the folk-tales of Kashmir.

Highlights of this edition are:

• 53 hand drawn original illustrations.
• A free web link to 29 audio files to listen to the whole book.
• It is formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your Nook reader.
• An active (easy to use) Table of Contents listing every chapter accessible from the Nook menu.
• Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with Nook's Text-to-Speech features.
• Plus About the Author Section.
• 301 pages (in the Nook format) for a very low price.

Tales included:

1. The Lion and the Crane
2. How the Raja's Son won the Princess Labam
3. The Lambikin
4. Punchkin
5. The Broken Pot
6. The Magic Fiddle
7. The Cruel Crane Outwitted
8. Loving Laili
9. The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal
10. The Soothsayers Son
11. Harisarman
12. The Charmed Ring
13. The Talkative Tortoise
14. A Lac of Rupees for a Piece of Advice
15. The Gold-Giving Serpent
16. The Son of Seven Queens
17. A Lesson for Kings
18. Pride Goes Before a Fall
19. Raja Rasalu
20. The Ass in the Lion's Skin
21. The Farmer and the Money-Lender
22. The Boy who had a Moon on his Forehead and a Star on his Chin
23. The Prince and the Fakir
24. Why the Fish Laughed
25. The Demon with the Matted Hair
26. The Ivory City and its Fairy Princess
27. Sun, Moon, and Wind go out to Dinner
28. How the Wicked Sons were Duped
29. The Pigeon and the Crow

This book is unabridged, and appears as it was first intended with fifty-three original hand drawn illustrations.