The mentor book of modern Asian literature : from the Khyber pass to Fuji /

Shimer, Dorothy Blair

The mentor book of modern Asian literature : from the Khyber pass to Fuji / edited by Dorothy Blair Shimer ; with an introduction, critical commentary, and biographical notes. - New York : New American Library, c1969. - x, 447 pages 18 cm.

Bibliography : p. 437-447

The authors and selections included here have been judged competent by their homegrown critics. Further, they reflect the life of the people from they emanate. Where several works by the same author are judged equal as literature - as the dance dramas of Rabindranath Tagore, for instance - those selected for inclusion here offer the "foreign" reader more value by way of cultural insights.


Oriental literature.

PJ 409.Sh62 / .M529 1969