Ellen C. Babbitt — Jataka Tales: Animal Stories Retold from the Original Pali

This work by Ellen C. Babbitt is a collection of animal fables retold from the original Pali Jataka tales. It is significant for making these ancient Buddhist stories accessible to a wider, younger audience in English.

Sources for Ellen C. Babbitt — Jataka Tales: Animal Stories Retold from the Original Pali

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Ellen C. Babbitt — Jataka Tales: Animal Stories Retold from the Original Pali in Fables

Held in the Fables chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.

• Aesop (V. S. Vernon Jones, trans.; illus. Arthur Rackham) — Aesop's Fables: A New Translation (1912)
• Martha Warren Beckwith — Jamaica Anansi Stories (1924)
• Edwin Arnold (trans.) — The Book of Good Counsels, from the Sanskrit of the Hitopadeśa (1861)
• Jean de La Fontaine (Walter Thornbury, trans.; illus. Gustave Doré) — The Fables of La Fontaine (1882)
• Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani (Oliver Wardrop, trans.) — The Book of Wisdom and Lies (1894)
• Henry Morley (ed.) — The History of Reynard the Fox (1889)
• Ivan Krylov (W. R. S. Ralston, trans.) — Krilof and His Fables (1869)