{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Twenty-nine traditional tales from India include \"The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal,\" \"The Lion and the Crane,\" and \"Why the Fish Laughed.\""}, "title": "Indian Fairy Tales", "covers": [767614, 10002534, 10877333, 12621934], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "THE Bodhissatta was at one time born in the region of Himavanta as a white crane ; now Brahmadatta was at that time reigning in Benares."}, "subject_places": ["India"], "first_publish_date": "January 1, 1972", "key": "/works/OL240336W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2532352A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL7923753A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL7923754A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL9617632A"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL9213640A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "THE Bodhissatta was at one time born in the region of Himavanta as a white crane ; now Brahmadatta was at that time reigning in Benares."}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fantasy", "Fiction", "Mythology", "Short Stories", "Classic Literature", "Folklore", "Juvenile Fiction", "Fairy tales", "Folklore, india", "Fiction, fantasy, collections & anthologies", "India, fiction", "Fiction, fantasy, general", "Fairy tales -- India", "Folklore -- India"], "genres": ["/tags/OL169T", "/tags/OL176T", "/tags/OL174T"], "latest_revision": 16, "revision": 16, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-23T11:39:40.200658"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-29T23:06:59.288545"}}