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Download or read book The Goat-Faced Girl written by and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2009 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Isabella, a beautiful but lazy young woman, agrees to marry an equally lazy prince, the sorceress who raised her gives her the head of a goat in hopes that she will learn to do things for herself.
Book Synopsis Italian Folktales by : Italo Calvino
Download or read book Italian Folktales written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Times’s Ten Best Books of the Year: These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are “a treasure” (Los Angeles Times). Filled with kings and peasants, saints and ogres—as well as some quite extraordinary plants and animals—these two hundred tales bring to life Italy’s folklore, sometimes with earthy humor, sometimes with noble mystery, and sometimes with the playfulness of sheer nonsense. Selected and retold by one of the country’s greatest literary icons, “this collection stands with the finest folktale collections anywhere” (The New York Times Book Review). “For readers of any age . . . A masterwork.” —The Wall Street Journal “A magic book, and a classic to boot.” —Time
Book Synopsis Italian Popular Tales by : Thomas Frederick Crane
Download or read book Italian Popular Tales written by Thomas Frederick Crane and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane
Book Synopsis Italian Folktales in America by : Elizabeth Mathias
Download or read book Italian Folktales in America written by Elizabeth Mathias and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1988-10-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection that greatly enriches our understanding of who told (and tells) märchen (Italian folktales) to whom, why and how they are told, and, perhaps most important, under what conditions.
Book Synopsis Italian Fairy Tales by : Lilia E. Romano
Download or read book Italian Fairy Tales written by Lilia E. Romano and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 11 stories of romance, mischief and adventure interweave Italy's traditions and heritage with fantasy and folklore. Beautiful princesses, magical animals, handsome princes, fearsome witches and ogres all play their roles in these tales. With captivating illustrations on nearly every page, this collection is sure to delight readers of all ages. This classic volume was originally published before 1920, and Hippocrene Books is pleased to bring it back into print for a whole new generation of readers.
Book Synopsis The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales by :
Download or read book The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales written by and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales—most in English for the first time The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales presents twenty magical stories published between 1875 and 1914, following Italy’s political unification. In those decades of political and social change, folklorists collected fairy tales from many regions of the country while influential writers invented original narratives in standard Italian, drawing on traditional tales in local dialects, and translated others from France. This collection features a range of these entertaining jewels from such authors as Carlo Collodi, most celebrated for the novel Pinocchio, and Domenico Comparetti, regarded as the Italian Grimm, to Grazia Deledda, the only Italian woman to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. With one exception, all of these tales are appearing in English for the first time. The stories in this volume are linked by themes of metamorphosis: a man turns into a lion, a dove, and an ant; a handsome youth emerges from a pig’s body; and three lovely women rise out of the rinds of pomegranates. There are also more introspective transformations: a self-absorbed princess learns about manners, a melancholy prince finds joy again, and a complacent young woman discovers gratitude. Cristina Mazzoni provides a comprehensive introduction that situates the tales in their cultural and historical context. The collection also includes period illustrations and biographical notes about the authors. Filled with adventures, supernatural and fantastic events, and brave and flawed protagonists, The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales will delight, surprise, and astonish.
Book Synopsis Biancabella and Other Italian Fairy Tales by : Anne Macdonell
Download or read book Biancabella and Other Italian Fairy Tales written by Anne Macdonell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of fairy tales, including "Companions of the forest" and "Rags-and-Tatters."
Book Synopsis The Mysterious Giant of Barletta by : Tomie DePaola
Download or read book The Mysterious Giant of Barletta written by Tomie DePaola and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1984 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The giant statue that has always stood in front of the Church of San Sepolcro in Barletta is called upon to save the town from an army of a thousand men that is destroying all the towns and cities along the lower Adriatic coast.
Book Synopsis Italian-American Folklore by : Frances M. Malpezzi
Download or read book Italian-American Folklore written by Frances M. Malpezzi and published by august house. This book was released on 1992 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian-Americans compose one of the largest ethnic groups in the United States, numbering more than 14 million in the 1990 census. Though they have often been portrayed in fiction and film, these images are often based on stereotypes not borne out among the immigrant and assimilated population.
Download or read book Hermit in Paris written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The posthumously published collection Hermit in Paris draws together an array of Italo Calvino's autobiographical writings that provide an illuminating and unexpectedly intimate portrait of one of the postwar era's most inventive and fascinating writers. In these pages, Calvino recounts his experiences in Italy's antifascist resistance, pays homage to his influences, traces the evolution of his literary style, and, in one of the book's most humorous and entertaining sections, provides a wry commentary on his travels in the United States in 1959 and 1960"--
Book Synopsis Stories from the Pentamerone by : Giambattista Basile
Download or read book Stories from the Pentamerone written by Giambattista Basile and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Montaigne written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during the Second World War, Zweig's typically passionate and readable biography of Michel de Montaigne, is also a heartfelt argument for the importance of intellectual freedom, tolerance and humanism. Zweig draws strong parallels between Montaigne's age, when Europe was torn in two by conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism, and his own, in which the twin fanaticisms of Fascism and Communism were on the verge of destroying the pan-continental liberal culture he was born into, and loved dearly. Just as Montaigne sought to remain aloof from the factionalism of his day, so Zweig tried to the last to defend his freedom of thought, and argue for peace and compromise. One of the final works Zweig wrote before his suicide, this is both a brilliantly impassioned portrait of a great mind, and a moving plea for tolerance in a world ruled by cruelty.
Book Synopsis Italian Folktales by : Italo Calvino
Download or read book Italian Folktales written by Italo Calvino and published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. This book was released on 1980 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen by The New York Times as one of its best books in the year of its original publication, this treasure trove of 200 lively Italian folktales has won a cherished place among fans of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. In this collection, Calvino combines a sensibility attuned to the fantastical with a singular writerly ability to capture the visions and dreams of a culture.
Book Synopsis Fables and Folktales by : Maristella Maggi
Download or read book Fables and Folktales written by Maristella Maggi and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of fables by the famous Russian writer.
Book Synopsis Grandfather's Rock by : Joel Strangis
Download or read book Grandfather's Rock written by Joel Strangis and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poor family in Italy finds a way to keep their elderly Grandfather with them instead of sending him to live in a home for old people.
Book Synopsis Teaching Fairy Tales by : Nancy L. Canepa
Download or read book Teaching Fairy Tales written by Nancy L. Canepa and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedagogical models and methodologies for engaging with fairy tales in the classroom.
Book Synopsis Folktales of Egypt by : Hasan M. El-Shamy
Download or read book Folktales of Egypt written by Hasan M. El-Shamy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy's English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve their spirit, but give Middle Eastern lore the scholarly attention it has long deserved. "This collection of seventy recently collected Egyptian tales is a major contribution to African studies and to international distribution studies of folktales. In the face of the recent anthropological trend to use folkloric materials for extra-folkloric purposes, the preeminence of the text must be asserted once more, and these are obviously authentic, straightforwardly translated, fully documented as to date of collection and social category of informant, and for all that . . . readable."—Daniel J. Crowley, Research in African Literatures "Western knowledge of virtually all facets of contemporary Egyptian culture, much less the roots of that culture, is woefully inadequate. By providing an interesting, varied, and readable collection of Egyptian folktales and offering clear and sensible accounts of their background and meaning, this book renders a valuable service indeed."—Kenneth J. Perkins, International Journal of Oral History
