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Mahabharata : a modern retelling / Carole Satyamurti.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]Edition: First editionDescription: xxxviii, 888 pages : genealogical tables ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393081756
  • 0393081753
  • 9780393352498
  • 0393352498
Uniform titles:
  • Mah�abh�arata. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 821/.914 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6069.A776 M34 2015
Other classification:
  • I351.25
Contents:
The book of the beginning -- The book of the assembly hall -- The book of the forest -- The book of Virata -- The book of Perseverance -- The books of Bhishma -- The book of Drona -- The book of Karna -- The book of Shalya -- The book of the night attack -- The book of the women -- The book of peace -- The book of instruction -- The book of the horse sacrifice -- The book of the hermitage -- The book of the clubs -- The books of the final journey and the ascent to Heaven.
Summary: "Innovatively composed in blank verse rather than prose, Carole Satyamurti's English retelling covers all eighteen books of the Mahabharata. This new version masterfully captures the beauty, excitement, and profundity of the original Sanskrit poem as well as its magnificent architecture and extraordinary scope"--
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The book of the beginning -- The book of the assembly hall -- The book of the forest -- The book of Virata -- The book of Perseverance -- The books of Bhishma -- The book of Drona -- The book of Karna -- The book of Shalya -- The book of the night attack -- The book of the women -- The book of peace -- The book of instruction -- The book of the horse sacrifice -- The book of the hermitage -- The book of the clubs -- The books of the final journey and the ascent to Heaven.

"Innovatively composed in blank verse rather than prose, Carole Satyamurti's English retelling covers all eighteen books of the Mahabharata. This new version masterfully captures the beauty, excitement, and profundity of the original Sanskrit poem as well as its magnificent architecture and extraordinary scope"--

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