Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1998-09-03
ISBN-13:9780140187007ISBN:0140187006
Description: Good. Some wear on extremities to include some corner curl, highlighting on pages, otherwise, good readable, tight bound copy. Back cover has been clipped. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780140187007ISBN:0140187006
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 2006-08-29
ISBN-13:9780143039679ISBN:0143039679
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780143039679ISBN:0143039679
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, New York
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780140187007ISBN:0140187006
Description: Very Good. Pp172, introduction, list of characters, glossary. A shortened modern prose version of the Indian epic. Narayan suggests that the Ramayana can be enjoyed for its psychological insight, its spiritual depth and its practical wisdom-or just as a thrilling tale of abduction, battle and courtship played out in a universe thronged with heroes, deities and demons. A clean, tight and square copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1972
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. VG/VG, hc, DJ has slight edgewear and smudginess, 171pp. "Suggested by the Tamil Version of Kamban" read more
Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
"Dear R.K. Narayan The Ramayana was a delightful epic poem to read. Rama is a reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. All the gods take care of different things (earth, people, and nature). They all have certain significance, making them really cool to learn about. Sita is Rama's wife and plays a very big part in this epic. If it wasn't for her Rama wouldn't have wanted to fight Ravana so badly, since Ravana stole Sita. In this epic there are many examples of vilification of women. This is when women are portrayed as evil, or something bad occurs and it's the women's fault. For example members of Ravana's council told Ravana that it was Sita who set his Palace on fire and not Hanuman, the monkey god, when the monkey had fire on his tail jumping from tower to tower. Another example is in the beginning of the book when demi-god wasn't considered a women because of the destruction she caused, as well as her new fangs and other monstrous experience. These twist and ironies make The Ramayana a very interesting epic."
"This book was so interesting, it gave me a real sense of the Hindu religion. The one thing that did confuse me about this book was the over dose of characters, it was a little bit overwhelming. While reading this book i found it helpful to make a story chart for the characters so i could keep track of who's who. As in most old stories women are not as shown as intellegent as the men or even as import. The reason i thought this was at the very beginning when Rama was a god in the heavens who wanted to be sent down to earth in order to whipe out all evil. He was born as a baby to a very wealthy king, his wife on the other hand was just dropped in the woods and was found when someone was passing through the woods and found her. Over all though this book is very rememberable and is worth reading even though it's a challenge."
"I've read bits and pieces of the Ramayana before, mostly children's versions of stories about Hanuman when I was much younger. Then I watched Sita Sings the Blues last week, and I decided to read the Ramayana while I waited for my hold on the Mahabharata to come through. The Introduction for this version was written by Pinkaj Mishra and he notes Narayan's "aversion for scenes of overt violence, verbal or physical" (xiv) surfaces here too in his choosing, for instance, to drop Kamban's own account of Rama's harsh treatment of Sita after the battle with Ravana. That's an important note to make because it contextualises a narrative that has many forms as it does tellers. So while Sita Sings the Blues is very much a narrative whose purpose is to reclaim Sita's agency, this particular version of the Ramayana was written to preserve a beatific presentation of a faultless Rama.
Overall, it was a fun read. I'm looking forward to reading other versions of the Ramayana."
"I really liked this epic poem, mainly because it had many obstacles for Rama, to reach to his true love, Sita and the fact that Rama was really Vishnu all along. I really liked how the author made the relationship between Rama and Sita seem so true and so loyal, because of how they always stick together no matter what happens, and how even in reincarnation, they somehow found each other and fell in love again. The fact that Rama went through many obstacles to try to get Sita such as cutting the huge bow and fighting Ravana when he captured Sita, in general represents their true love which is my favorite understanding in the epic poem. Overall, some lessons that I recieved from this poem is one, you can never trust anyone or anything completely, and two, many people in the world will use hubris as a mask to cover up their own inner fears or their low self esteem, which is true for Ravana in this poem."
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