About the Book: Rumis Little Book of Love and Laughter: Teaching Stories and
Fables
Rowdy, ecstatic, and sometimes stern, these teaching stories and fables reveal
new and very human properties in Rumis vision. Included here are the notorious
"Latin parts" that Reynold Nicholson felt were too unseemly to appear in English
in his 1920s translation. For Rumi, anything thathuman beings do—however
compulsive—affords a glimpse into the inner life.
Here are more than 40 fables or teaching stories that deal with love, laughter,
death, betrayal, and the soul. The stories are exuberant, earthy, and bursting
with vitality—much like a painting by Hieronymus Bosch or Chaucers Canterbury
Tales.