Book Description
Includes twenty-seven folktales from Europe, Asia, Africa, India, the Arctic, and the Americas.
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Publisher : august house
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780874834222
Includes twenty-seven folktales from Europe, Asia, Africa, India, the Arctic, and the Americas.
Author : Heather Forest
Publisher : august house
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780874834796
A collection of traditional stories from around the world, reflecting the cumulative wisdom of Sufi, Zen, Taoist, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, African, and Native American cultures.
Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195178211
Especially for grown-ups, this is a selection of subversive, satirical, and sophisticated fairy tales full of polished wit and prose.
Author : Hugh Lupton
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2019-04
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9781782853978
A collection of seven tales from around the world featuring remarkable animals and extraordinary people reminding us of how vast and mysterious the world is and how our lives can be transformed in the most unexpected circumstances.
Author : Joanna Cole
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release : 1983-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385189494
This collection of over two hundred folk and fairy tales from all over the world is the only edition that encompasses all cultures. Arranged geographically by region—West and East Europe, British Isles, Scandinavia, and Northern Europe, Middle East, Asia, the Pacific, Africa, North America, the Carribean and West Indies, and Central and South America—and lovingly selected from the personal favorites of folklorists and writers, this book is a major anthology in its field. Gathered together in this wide-ranging collection are familiar classics like "Snow-White" and "Sleeping Beauty," and stories that equal them from all major cultures. Together they offer magic, adventure, laughter, reflection, vivid images, and a throng of colorful characters. More important, they offer insight into the oral traditions of different cultures and deal with universal human dilemmas that span differences of age, culture, and geography. Animal fables, proverbs, ghost stories, funny tales, and tales of enchantment provide a unique reading experience for all ages. A category index groups the tales by plot and character, e.g., humorous, supernatural, and "pourquoi" tales, married couples, enchanted sweethearts, etc. Like all great literature, these tales can be read with fascination on many levels, making Best-Loved Folktales of the World a classic and enduring collection.
Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804152861
From Africa, Burma, and Czechoslovakia to Turkey, Vietnam, and Wales here are more than 150 of the world's best-loved folktales from more than forty countries and cultures. These tales of wonder and transformation, of heroes and heroines, of love lost and won, of ogres and trolls, stories both jocular and cautionary and legends of pure enchantment will delight readers and storytellers of all ages. With black-and-white drawings throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Author : Anne E. Duggan Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2815 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present. Folktales and fairy tales have long played an important role in cultures around the world. They pass customs and lore from generation to generation, provide insights into the peoples who created them, and offer inspiration to creative artists working in media that now include television, film, manga, photography, and computer games. This second, expanded edition of an award-winning reference will help students and teachers as well as storytellers, writers, and creative artists delve into this enchanting world and keep pace with its past and its many new facets. Alphabetically organized and global in scope, the work is the only multivolume reference in English to offer encyclopedic coverage of this subject matter. The four-volume collection covers national, cultural, regional, and linguistic traditions from around the world as well as motifs, themes, characters, and tale types. Writers and illustrators are included as are filmmakers and composers—and, of course, the tales themselves. The expert entries within volumes 1 through 3 are based on the latest research and developments while the contents of volume 4 comprises tales and texts. While most books either present readers with tales from certain countries or cultures or with thematic entries, this encyclopedia stands alone in that it does both, making it a truly unique, one-stop resource.
Author : Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486296777
Sixteen lively tales tell of giants rumbling down mountainsides, of a magic wand that turns stone pillars into warriors, of gods and goddesses, evil hags, powerful forces, and more.
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
THERE was once a King who had one only son, and him he loved better than anything in the whole world-better even than his own life. The King's greatest desire was to see his son married, but though the Prince had travelled in many lands, and had seen many noble and beautiful ladies, there was not one among them all whom he wished to have for a wife. One day the King called his son to him and said, "My son, for a long time now I have hoped to see you choose a bride, but you have desired no one. Take now this silver key. Go to the top of the castle, and there you will see a steel door. This key will unlock it. Open the door and enter. Look carefully at everything in the room, and then return and tell me what you have seen. But, whatever you do, do not touch nor draw aside the curtain that hangs at the right of the door. If you should disobey me and do this thing, you will suffer the greatest dangers, and may even pay for it with your life."
Author : Isabel Wyatt
Publisher : Floris Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1782506993
If Orfeo is to be king, his mother decides, he must sleep outside. And so Orfeo sleeps in the meadow and becomes friends with the animals, birds, insects and beetles. Then one day, he agrees to help a jackdaw return a ruby ring to a princess... King Beetle Tamer is just one of fifteen magical wonder tales in this collection by master storyteller Isabel Wyatt. The stories are full of magic and unicorns, fairies and palaces, roses and gold, which will transport children to a world of faraway places and heroic deeds._x000D_ Suitable for children aged seven and up, this is a classic collection from the author of The Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book._x000D_ A new revised edition, previously published as King Beetle-Tamer.