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Oriental tales

Oriental tales

Marguerite Yourcenar · 1985 · 147 pages

Orient in fictionSocial life and customsEnglish TranslationsFictionTranslations into EnglishContinental european fiction (fictional works by one author)

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Oriental Tales (French: Nouvelles orientales) is a 1938 short story collection by the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar. The stories share a self-consciously mythological form; some are based on pre-existing myths and legends, while some are new. The story "How Wang-Fo Was Saved" was adapted into an animated short film by René Laloux in the 1980s." -- www.wikipedia.com.

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