Fairy Tales & Folklore

Fables of Pilpay

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  • 1872 first published
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Fables of Pilpay is an 1872 folklore and fairy tales novel by Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ.

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About Fables of Pilpay

These moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabic by a Persian named Ruzbeh who named it Book of Kalilah and Dimna and then by Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa and later Joseph Harris in 1679 and then remodeled in 1818. Max Mueller noted that La Fontaine was indebted to the work and other scholars have noted that Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont and John Fletcher were both familiar with the fables. The Fables of Pilpay are a series of inter-woven fables, many of which deploy metaphors of anthropomorphized animals with human virtues and vices. (Summary by The introduction and Wikipedia)
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Who wrote Fables of Pilpay?

Fables of Pilpay was written by Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ and first published in 1872.

What genre is Fables of Pilpay?

It is usually shelved as Fairy Tales & Folklore.

Is there a free audiobook of Fables of Pilpay?

Yes — LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 6 h 46 min.

What books are similar to Fables of Pilpay?

Readers who like it often enjoy Through the Looking-Glass, The Princess and the Goblin and Le avventure di Pinocchio.

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