The cricket's story by Hoang, Tran Chau

“…“The Cricket’s Story” is a lively work combined with the famous story, “Dế Mèn Phiêu Lưu Kí” (The Adventures of a Cricket) by the Vietnamese writer Tô Hoài, and inspiring illustrations from the uniquely traditional Đông Hồ painting of Vietnam. …”
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VAMBA’S NOVEL “THE PRINCE AND HIS ANTS” IN A LITERARY CONTEXT by Николай Гуськов

“…The pretexts of the novel are the works of Alfred Brehm, Jean Henri Fabre, Frances Hubert, Carlo Emery, popular science articles in Italian children’s magazines, the novel “The Adventures of a Cricket” (1877) by Ernest Candez. Traditionally ants were portrayed either sympathetically or antipathically in the role of social and moral allegories (Bible, Virgil, Ovid, Aesop and other fabulists, Fransis Bacon, and others). …”
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