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Jack the Giant Killer is the famous English fairy tale about a brave lad slaying hideous giants. Color illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
Author : Joseph Jacobs
Publisher : The Planet
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 2013-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1909115487
Jack the Giant Killer is the famous English fairy tale about a brave lad slaying hideous giants. Color illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
Author : Charles de Lint
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 1999-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312869595
Jacky Rowan is hurtled into the land of Faerie and is hailed as a trickster hero destined to save the Elven Courts.
Author : John Newbery
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Art
ISBN :
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book is a children's book written by John Newbery. It is commonly thought to be the first children's book ever made, and provides a code of conduct for boys and girls in different social settings.
Author : Joseph Jacobs
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781727818864
English Fairy Tales By Joseph Jacobs A word or two as to our title seems necessary. We have called our stories Fairy Tales though few of them speak of fairies. The same remark applies to the collection of the Brothers Grimm and to all the other European collections, which contain exactly the same classes of tales as ours. Yet our stories are what the little ones mean when they clamour for "Fairy Tales," and this is the only name which they give to them. One cannot imagine a child saying, "Tell us a folk-tale, nurse," or "Another nursery tale, please, grandma." As our book is intended for the little ones, we have indicated its contents by the name they use. The words "Fairy Tales" must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something "fairy," something extraordinary--fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals. It must be taken also to cover tales in which what is extraordinary is the stupidity of some of the actors.
Author : Mark A. Hall
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781938398407
THE BOOK THAT BREAKS A CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL TABOO! Do giant primates larger than gorillas, taller than Sasquatch and Yetis, still exist in the remotest corners of the globe? Famed cryptozoologists Mark A. Hall and Loren Coleman join forces to share their knowledge of this unexplored and neglected topic in cryptozoology. Bigfoot researchers have long been mystified, even embarrassed, by reports of giant hairy apes larger than Bigfoot, and as a result eyewitness reports of what Hall and Coleman call True Giants have never been fully considered in the broader zoological context. Reviewing the evidence found in traditions and footprints, folklore and sightings, the authors of this groundbreaking volume present for the first time in one place the wide-ranging argument for the possible survival of a giant species of primate that we know lived on Earth for millions of years. MARK A. HALL is the author of Thunderbirds: America's Living Legends of Giant Birds. LOREN COLEMAN, author of Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America and The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates, Together they have been studying the question of True Giants and their kin for fifty years.
Author : Donald Rumbelow
Publisher : Random House
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 075354993X
Fully updated and revised, Donald Rumbelow’s classic work is the ultimate examination of the facts, theories, fictions and fascinations surrounding the greatest whodunit in history. The Complete Jack the Ripper lays out all the evidence in the most comprehensive summary ever written about the Ripper. Rumbelow, a former London Metropolitan policeman, and an authority on crime, has subjected every theory – including those that have emerged in recent years – to the same deep scrutiny. He also examines the mythology surrounding the case and provides some fascinating insights into the portrayal of the Ripper on stage and screen and on the printed page. More seriously, he also examines the horrifying parallel crimes of the Düsseldorf Ripper and the Yorkshire Ripper in an attempt to throw further light on the atrocities of Victorian London.
Author : Tom Hyman
Publisher : Bantam Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 1985-02
Category :
ISBN : 9780553225211
Author : Donald Haase Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 2002-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1576074277
The first compilation of the full first-edition texts of the classic fairy tale collections by Joseph Jacobs, with Jacobs' original prefaces and annotations. In these two classic collections, first published in 1890 and 1894, Joseph Jacobs combined folklore, children's literature, and the eclectic scholarship of the Victorian era to create a storehouse of tales that inhabited the imaginations of children and adults for generations. Here readers first met Tom Tit Tot, Molly Whuppie, and Jack the Giant-Killer, and first read the stories of the Three Little Pigs, the Three Bears, and Henny-Penny. Jacobs' daring collections challenged conventional thinking about the meaning of "folk," the individual artistry behind folktales, and the boundaries between folklore and literature, anticipating modern developments in folklore studies. His original editions of these 87 classic tales, along with the original illustrations, are reprinted in this new volume, offering readers an unsurpassed understanding of the development of the classic fairy tale in late Victorian England.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 33,57 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : James Kevin Donnelly
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780764955464
Puts a new twist on three classic fairy tales, as Little Red, her grandmother, and the woodcutter are rewarded, Jack taunts the last remaining giant in Cornwall, and Omoline, the miller's daughter, toys with the ugly little man who wants to take her child.