인도 동화집 / Indian Fairy Tales (영문판, 삽화 포함)

조셉 제이콥스 외 지음

아이보리잉크 2025년 04월 22일 출간

작품소개

책소개

* 이 도서는 영어만으로 구성되어 있습니다.
이 책은 인도 전래 동화 모음집이다. 이 책은 인도 전통 설화 속의 지혜, 유머, 교훈을 생생하게 전달하며, 호랑이, 라자, 요정, 신비한 동물 등 다채로운 캐릭터들이 펼치는 이야기들로 가득하다. 각 이야기는 인도의 풍부한 문화와 정신세계를 엿볼 수 있는 창이 되어주며, 어린이와 어른 모두에게 상상력과 삶의 지혜를 선사한다. 제이콥스의 간결하면서도 생동감 있는 문체와 배튼의 아름다운 삽화가 어우러져, 고대 인도의 이야기들을 현대 독자들에게도 매력적으로 전달한다.

목차

표지
목차
The Lion and the Crane
How the Raja's Son won the Princess Labam.
The Lambikin
Punchkin
The Broken Pot
The Magic Fiddle
The Cruel Crane Outwitted
Loving Laili
The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal
The Soothsayer's Son
Harisarman
The Charmed Ring
The Talkative Tortoise
A Lac of Rupees for a Bit of Advice
The Gold-giving Serpent
The Son of Seven Queens
A Lesson for Kings
Pride goeth before a Fall
Raja Rasalu.
The Ass in the Lion's Skin
The Farmer and the Money-lender
The Boy who had a Moon on his Forehead and a Star on his Chin
The Prince and the Fakir
Why the Fish Laughed.
The Demon with the Matted Hair
The Ivory City and its Fairy Princess
How Sun, Moon, and Wind went out to Dinner
How the Wicked Sons were Duped.
The Pigeon and the Crow
브랜드 소개
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(참고) 분량: 약 25만자

책 속으로

In a country there was a Raja who had an only son who every day went out to hunt. One day the Rani, his mother, said to him, "You can hunt wherever you like on these three sides; but you must never go to the fourth side." This she said because she knew if he went on the fourth side he would hear of the beautiful Princess Labam, and that then he would leave his father and mother and seek for the princess.
The young prince listened to his mother, and obeyed her for some time; but one day, when he was hunting on the three sides where he was allowed to go, he remembered what she had said to him about the fourth side, and he determined to go and see why she had forbidden him to hunt on that side. When he got there, he found himself in a jungle, and nothing in the jungle but a quantity of parrots, who lived in it. The young Raja shot at some of them, and at once they all flew away up to the sky. All, that is, but one, and this was their Raja, who was called Hiraman parrot.
When Hiraman parrot found himself left alone, he called out to the other parrots, "Don't fly away and leave me alone when the Raja's son shoots. If you desert me like this, I will tell the Princess Labam."
Then the parrots all flew back to their Raja, chattering. The prince was greatly surprised, and said, "Why, these birds can talk!" Then he said to the parrots, "Who is the Princess Labam? Where does she live?" But the parrots would not tell him where she lived. "You can never get to the Princess Labam's country." That is all they would say.
The prince grew very sad when they would not tell him anything more; and he threw his gun away, and went home. When he got home, he would not speak or eat, but lay on his bed for four or five days, and seemed very ill.
At last he told his father and mother that he wanted to go and see the Princess Labam. "I must go," he said; "I must see what she is like. Tell me where her country is."
"We do not know where it is," answered his father and mother.
"Then I must go and look for it," said the prince.
"No, no," they said, "you must not leave us. You are our only son. Stay with us. You will never find the Princess Labam."
"I must try and find her," said the prince. "Perhaps God will show me the way. If I live and I find her, I will come back to you; but perhaps I shall die, and then I shall never see you again. Still I must go."
So they had to let him go, though they cried very much at parting with him. His father gave him fine clothes to wear, and a fine horse. And he took his gun, and his bow and arrows, and a great many other weapons, "for," he said, "I may want them." His father, too, gave him plenty of rupees.
Then he himself got his horse all ready for the journey, and he said good-bye to his father and mother; and his mother took her handkerchief and wrapped some sweetmeats in it, and gave it to her son. "My child," she said to him, "When you are hungry eat some of these sweetmeats."
He then set out on his journey, and rode on and on till he came to a jungle in which were a tank and shady trees. He bathed himself and his horse in the tank, and then sat down under a tree. "Now," he said to himself, "I will eat some of the sweetmeats my mother gave me, and I will drink some water, and then I will continue my journey." He opened his handkerchief, and took out a sweetmeat. He found an ant in it. He took out another. There was an ant in that one too. So he laid the two sweetmeats on the ground, and he took out another, and another, and another, until he had taken them all out; but in each he found an ant. "Never mind," he said, "I won't eat the sweetmeats; the ants shall eat them." Then the Ant-Raja came and stood before him and said, "You have been good to us. If ever you are in trouble, think of me and we will come to you."
The Raja's son thanked him, mounted his horse and continued his journey. He rode on and on until he came to another jungle, and there he saw a tiger who had a thorn in his foot, and was roaring loudly from the pain.

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저자(글) 조셉 제이콥스 외

조지프 제이콥스 (Joseph Jacobs, 1854–1916)는 영국 출신의 역사학자이자 민속학자로, 유럽과 세계 각지의 전래 동화를 수집하고 소개하는 데 큰 공헌을 한 인물이다.