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Source text (please read only from this text!):https://archive.org/details/fablesofpilpay00bidp/page/n6/mode/1up Lets prounoune The Fables of Pilpay as The Fables of Bidpa and say Fable no. as part of the readingThese moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabic by a Persian named Ruzbeh who named it Book of Kalilah and Dimna and then by Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa and later Joseph Harris in 1679 and then remodeled in 1818. Max Mueller noted that La Fontaine was indebted to the work and other scholars have noted that Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont and John Fletcher were both familiar with the fables. The Fables of Pilpay are a series of inter-woven fables, many of which deploy metaphors of anthropomorphized animals with human virtues and vices. (Summary by The introduction and Wikipedia)
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[*]Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchatantra
[*]Number of sections (files) this project will have: 59
[*]Does the project have an introduction or preface: Yes
[*]Original publication date (if known): c 200 BC - 300 Ad
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Genres for the project: Children's Fiction/Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales; Children's Fiction/Short works; Epistolary Fiction; Short Stories/Single Author Collections; Culture & Heritage Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: literature, fables, Indian literature, panchatantra, book of kalilah and dimna, Arabic literary prose
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
End of recording:"Section"# of The Fables of Pilpay. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "The Fables of Pilpay, by Anonymous, translated by Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa and Joseph Harris. Section Title."
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If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of Section #." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of The Fables of Pilpay, by Anonymous, translated by Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa and Joseph Harris."
Filename: fablesofpilpay_##_anonymous_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. fablesofpilpay_01_anonymous_128kb.mp3)
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