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Ramsay Wood is the author of two sui generis modern novels which aim — with inter-connected frame-story narratives — to capture the ancient (pre-literate) oral story-listening drama of multicultural animal fables mimed and declaimed along the Silk Road since the time of the Buddha.

His two books blend The Jatakas Tales, The Panchatantra and the brief (fourth century BCE) role of Alexander the Great's Hellenization legacy in "bringing the Aesopian tradition to North India and Central Asia".

Wood's Kalila and Dimna Vol 1 — Fables of Friendship and Betrayal was first published by Knopf in 1980 as Selected Fables of Bidpai with an Introduction by Doris Le ...more

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	Kalila and Dimna #1 - The Panchatantra Retold (book 1 and 2 of 5) by Ramsay Wood (Goodreads Author), Doris Lessing (Introduction), Margaret Kilrenny (Illustrator) 4.18 avg rating — 394 ratings — published 300 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kalila and Dimna, Vol 2 — Fables of Conflict and Intrigue by Ramsay Wood (Goodreads Author), Gillian Whitworth (Illustrator), Michael Wood (Introduction) 4.23 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cat May Look at a King: & Seven Other Stories to Tell Your Cat 3.92 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Extraordinary Voyages of the Panchatantra 4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	KALILA Y DIMNA Y OTRAS FABULAS DEL PANCHATANTRA by Ramsay Wood (Goodreads Author), Virtual Voice (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Extraordinary Voyages of the PANCHATANTRA: Assaying Storytelling’s Currencies by Ramsay Wood (Goodreads Author), Margaret Kilrenny (Illustrator), Gillian Whitworth (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cat May Look at a King: & Seven Other Stories To Tell Your Cat by Ramsay Wood (Goodreads Author), Virtual Voice (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I am the slave of what I have spoken, but the master of what I conceal.”
― Ramsay Wood, Kalila and Dimna #1 - Fables of Friendship and Betrayal

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“The world is a nectar-filled cup And we but gobbling flies. Some hang on the lip and modestly sup While others gorge up to their eyes.”
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“Like many great leaders, he loved the sweet theory of power and was less enamoured of the grisly details of its execution, though he never neglected them.”
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