Book Description
A novel spinning warm and very amusing tall tales about larger-than-life characters in a small village in the South Wales Valleys in the 1960s.
Author : Ken Smith
Publisher : Y Lolfa
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1784616370
A novel spinning warm and very amusing tall tales about larger-than-life characters in a small village in the South Wales Valleys in the 1960s.
Author : Ken Smith
Publisher : Tales from My Welsh Village
Page : pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784618261
A second humorous novel based on the outrageous antics of local characters from the author's early life in the South Wales Valleys near Merthyr. By the author of the very popular and funny Tales from My Welsh Village (Y Lolfa, 2018), now in its third impression.
Author : Alfred Thomas
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781104182908
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Peter Henry Emerson
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Peter Stevenson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0750981903
This book, a selection of folk tales, true tales, tall tales, myths, gossip, legends and memories, celebrates and honours unique Welsh stories. Some are well known, others from forgotten manuscripts or out-of-print volumes, and some are contemporary oral tales. They reflect the diverse tradition of storytelling, and the many meanings of ‘chwedlau’. If someone says, ‘Chwedl Cymraeg?’ they are asking, ‘Do you speak Welsh?’ and ‘Do you tell a tale in Welsh?’ Here is the root of storytelling, or ‘chwedleua’, in Wales. It is part of conversation.This book, one to linger over and to treasure, keeps these ancient tales alive by retelling them for a new audience.
Author : P. H. Emerson
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 2015-07-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781331217770
Excerpt from Tales From Welsh Wales: Founded on Fact and Current Tradition "The three things notable in a Cymro - genius, generosity and myrth." - Keltic Cookadoodledooism, by the Earl of Pembroke. Amid the bare, rolling hills of Anglesea lived John Jones, a wealthy man and well connected. From a boy John Jones had been short in stature, with a round, protuberant belly, like that of a mush-fed negro child; nor did this stoutness decrease with age, on the contrary, at forty John Jones could only just span his belly with both his hands - for his limbs, like his torso, were short and stout. John Jones was a dark-haired, explosive Welshman, but not quite sharp; his neighbours who "had English" called him "rather soft," but that mattered little to him for he had much money, a fine house and a large garden; indeed, horticulture was his hobby, cock-fighting his serious occupation. He married young and was blessed with two daughters. Soon after marriage John Jones established an annual custom of showing his servants his wealth, the golden sovereigns tightly wedged into a stout, iron-bound, oaken chest, kept in a strong room. All his fortune was there, for in those days in remote rural districts everyone was his own banker. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Carwyn Graves
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 10,3 MB
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 191527902X
Welsh Food Stories explores more than two thousand years of history to discover the rich but forgotten heritage of Welsh foods – from oysters to cider, salted butter to salt-marsh lamb. Despite centuries of industry, ancient traditions have survived in pockets across the country among farmers, bakers, fisherfolk, brewers and growers who are taking Welsh food back to its roots, and trailblazing truly sustainable foods as they do so. In this important book, author Carwyn Graves travels Wales to uncover the country’s traditional foods and meet the people making them today. There are the owners of a local Carmarthenshire chip shop who never forget a customer, the couple behind Anglesey’s world-renowned salt company Halen Môn, and everyone else in between – all of them have unique and compelling stories to tell about how they contribute to the past, present and future of Welsh food. This is an evocative and insightful exploration of an often overlooked national cuisine, shining a spotlight on the importance – environmentally and socially – of keeping local food production alive.
Author : P. H. Emerson
Publisher : Myths, Legend and Folk Tales f
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781907256035
This volume contains twenty-four such tales collected from around Wales by P. H. Emerson whilst living in Anglesea during the winter 1891-2. In most cases he amended them as little as possible, preferring to record the stories as told, staying true to the original, so that the written story would enchant readers as though it were being presented in the vernacular. Why do we call such a collection Fairy Tales? Well, when last did you hear a child say 'One more folk tale please' or 'Another nursery tale, please, grandma'? Fairy tales are stories in which occurs something 'fairy', something extraordinary--fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals, or the remarkable stupidity of some of the characters. Stories of fairy interaction with humans - where the kind and thoughtful are blessed and the thoughtless and spiteful are punished. So take some time out and travel back to a period before television and radio, a time when families would gather around a crackling and spitting hearth and granddad or grandma or uncle or auntie would delight and captivate the gathering with stories passed on to them from their parents and grandparents from time immemorial. A proportion of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated towards the education of the underprivileged in Wales. A book in the "Myths, Legends and Folk Tales from Around the World" series.
Author : Willliam Elliot Griffis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752304502
Reproduction of the original: Welsh Fairy Tales by Willliam Elliot Griffis
Author : Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes
Publisher : Fontana Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Ghost stories, English
ISBN : 9780006132240