The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin (Compass)
"(Nasrudin's) antics are parallels of the mind's workings ..."  --The Observer, January 19, 1969"... an invitation to knowledge lies behind a smiling mask of almost childlike simplicity."  --Clarin, November 11, 1976"... deliberately created ... to outwit ... the patterns of conditioned thinking which form the prison in which we all live."  --Doris Lessing, The New York Times Book Review, May 7, 1971"Undebased wisdom, a kind of addendum to language, joining people together, a kind of extension of the proverbial."  --Geoffrey Grigson, Country Life, November 21, 1968--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.