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Greatest Stories Ever Told

by Sampurna Chattarji
Publisher: Puffin (1970)    |     ISBN 10: 0670058092    |     ISBN 13: 9780670058099
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Creation and the fall. The Tempter and the holy man. The saintly hero and the heroic child. Miracles. Parables. These are the common threads that run through the world's great faiths, weaving a tapestry of belief that is at once immense and dazzling, innocent and wise. The stories recounted in this book echo and mirror each other, changing mysteriously, yet mysteriously staying the same. Noah rides out the flood in his Ark; Yima survives the snowstorm in his Vara. David vanquishes Goliath with a slingshot; Prahlad defeats evil with his goodness....
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SAMPURNA CHATTARJI is a poet, novelist and translator with ten books to her credit, and three forthcoming. Born in Ethiopia in November 1970, Sampurna grew up in Darjeeling, ......
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