Title: Oriental tales
Description: Oriental Tales (French: Nouvelles orientales) is a 1938 short story collection by the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar. The stories share a self-consciously mythological form; some are based on pre-existing myths and legends, while some are new. The story "How Wang-Fo Was Saved" was adapted into an animated short film by René Laloux in the 1980s." -- www.wikipedia.com.
Subjects: Orient in fiction, Social life and customs, English Translations, Fiction, Translations into English, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), French Short stories
Places: Orient
People: Marguerite Yourcenar