Armenian Folk-tales and Fables (Oxford Myths and Legends)

These folk-tales were told by simple people--vine-dressers, farm-laborers, millers--and were preserved by word of mouth, to be repeated for entertainment in the coffee-house, or at home during the long, hard winters. There are fables here, too, selected from the collections of medievalscholars and philosophers, while the expressive and often humorous proverbs show the ways of the world through shrewd Armenian eyes.
Author: Downing, Charles

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0192741551

ISBN-13: 9780192741554