1 “...This book presents translations of eight closely related 18th- and 19th-century Bengali folk tales...”

2 Table of Contents: “... of the Russian Middle Ages : The "Livonian Tales" of the 1820s -- "Gloomy Finland" and Russian Gothic Tales...”

3 Table of Contents: “.... Gembedded narratives: Jewelled peacetime tales of Rāma's exile and Rāvaṇa's domicile as alternative...”

4 Table of Contents: “..., wise sayings, and moral tales / Gary Saul Morson -- The "proletarian lord" : Leo Tolstoy's image during...”

5 Table of Contents: “...'s Sevastopol tales : pathos, sermon, protest, and Stowe / Liza Knapp -- On cultivating one's own garden...”

6 “... be' according to tropes common to Islamic history, theology, and law. The tales' discursive arena...”

7 “..."Across the twentieth century war was the central experience of the Russian people, spurring tales...”