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The Shipwrecked Sailor

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  • Panchatantra
    In short story: From Egypt to India

    …earliest surviving Egyptian tales, “The Shipwrecked Sailor” (c. 2000 bce), is clearly intended to be a consoling and inspiring story to reassure its aristocratic audience that apparent misfortune can in the end become good fortune. Also recorded during the 12th dynasty were the success story of the exile Sinuhe…

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