Latin American Folktales

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Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307426580
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Latin American Folktales written by John Bierhorst and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over one hundred stories showcasing the wisdom and artistry of one the world’s richest folktale traditions—the first panoramic anthology of Hispano-American folk narratives in any language. Gathered from twenty countries and combining the lore of medieval Europe, the ancient Near East, and pre-Columbian America, the stories brought together here represent a core collection of classic Latin American folktales. Among the essential characters are the quiet man's wife who knew the Devil's secrets, the three daughters who robbed their father's grave, and the wife in disguise who married her own husband—not to mention the Bear's son, the tricksters Fox and Monkey, the two compadres, and the classic rogue Pedro de Urdemalas. Featuring black-and-white illustrations throughout, this Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library edition is unprecedented in size and scope, including riddles, folk prayers, and fables never before translated into English.

Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112044669122 and Others

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Total Pages : 2422 pages
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LEV

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Total Pages : 2142 pages
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Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired

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Total Pages : 598 pages
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The Book of Fantasy

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ISBN 13 : 9780552994019
Total Pages : 526 pages
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The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories

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Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292753519
Total Pages : 172 pages
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Book Synopsis The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by : Horacio Quiroga

Download or read book The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories written by Horacio Quiroga and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Author of some 200 pieces of fiction that have been compared to the works of Poe, Kipling, and Jack London, Quiroga experienced a life that surpassed in morbidity and horror many of the inventions of his fevered mind. As a young man, he suffered his father's accidental death and the suicide of his beloved stepfather. As a teenager, he shot and accidentally killed one of his closest friends. Seemingly cursed in love, he lost his first wife to suicide by poison. In the end, Quiroga himself downed cyanide to end his own life when he learned he was suffering from an incurable cancer. In life Quiroga was obsessed with death, a legacy of the violence he had experienced. His stories are infused with death, too, but they span a wide range of short fiction genres: jungle tale, Gothic horror story, morality tale, psychological study. Many of his stories are set in the steaming jungle of the Misiones district of northern Argentina, where he spent much of his life, but his tales possess a universality that elevates them far above the work of a regional writer. The first representative collection of his work in English, The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories provides a valuable overview of the scope of Quiroga's fiction and the versatility and skill that have made him a classic Latin American writer.

Japanese Tales from Times Past

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Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462917216
Total Pages : 289 pages
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Download or read book Japanese Tales from Times Past written by and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of translated tales is from the most famous work in all of Japanese classical literature--the Konjaku Monogatari Shu. This collection of traditional Japanese folklore is akin to the Canterbury Tales of Chaucer or Dante's Inferno--powerfully entertaining tales that reveal striking aspects of the cultural psychology, fantasy, and creativity of medieval Japan--tales that still resonate with modern Japanese readers today. The ninety stories in this book are filled with keen psychological insights, wry sarcasm, and scarcely veiled criticisms of the clergy, nobles, and peasants alike--suggesting that there are, among all classes and peoples, similar failings of pride, vanity, superstition and greed--as well as aspirations toward higher moral goals. This is the largest collection in English of the Konjaku Monogatari Shu tales ever published in one volume. It presents the low life and the high life, the humble and the devout, the profane flirting, farting and fornicating of everyday men and women, as well as their yearning for the wisdom, transcendence and compassion that are all part and parcel of our shared humanity. Stories Include: The Grave of Chopsticks Robbers Come to a Temple and Steal Its Bell The Woman Fish Peddler at the Guardhouse Fish are Turned into the Lotus Sutra A Dragon is Caught by a Tengu Goblin The Monk Tojo Predicts the Fall of Shujaku Gate Wasps Attack a Spider in Revenge

Books In Print 2004-2005

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Publisher : R. R. Bowker
ISBN 13 : 9780835246422
Total Pages : 3274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (464 download)

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The Book of the Knight Zifar

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081316415X
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book The Book of the Knight Zifar written by Charles L. Nelson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of the Knight Zifar (or Cifar), Spain's first novel of chivalry, is the tale of a virtuous but unfortunate knight who has fallen from grace and must seek redemption through suffering and good deeds. Because of a curse that repeatedly deprives him of that most important of knightly accoutrements -- his horse -- Zifar and his family must flee their native India and wander through distant lands seeking to regain their rank and fortune. A series of mishaps divides the family, and the novel follows their separate adventures -- alternatively heroic, comic, and miraculous -- until at length they are reunited and their honor restored. The anonymous author of Zifar based his early fourteenth-century novel on the medieval story of the life of St. Eustacius, but onto this trunk he grafted a surprising variety of narrative types: Oriental tales of romance and magic, biblical stories, moralizing fables popular since the Middle Ages, including several from Aesop, and instructions in the rules of proper knightly conduct. Humor in the form of puns, jokes, and old proverbs also runs through the novel. In particular, the foolish/wise Knave offers a comic contrast to the heroic Knight, whom he must continually rescue through the application of common sense. Zifar was to have an important influence on later Spanish literature, and perhaps on Cervantes' great tale of a knight and his squire, Don Quixote. All those with an interest in Spanish literature and medieval life will be grateful for Mr. Nelson's excellent translation, which brings to life this extraordinary early novel.

A Blue Tale and Other Stories

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226965307
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (653 download)

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Book Synopsis A Blue Tale and Other Stories by : Marguerite Yourcenar

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Schlagwortkatalog des Ibero-Amerikanischen Instituts, Preussischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin

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Total Pages : 784 pages
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971

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Total Pages : 550 pages
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Fictionalizing heterodoxy

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110628783
Total Pages : 262 pages
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Guide to Reviews of Books from and about Hispanic America

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Total Pages : 1910 pages
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Burning Your Boats

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140255281
Total Pages : 481 pages
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The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin

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Publisher : Lethe Press
ISBN 13 : 1590211758
Total Pages : 242 pages
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The Great Stone Face

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Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465553096
Total Pages : 87 pages
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