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Author : Milton Rugoff
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of World Folk Tales written by Milton Rugoff and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1977 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Milton Rugoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of World Folk Tales written by Milton Rugoff and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Pearson UK
ISBN 13 : 1292306602
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (923 download)
Download or read book World Folktales written by and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joanna Cole
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385189494
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Best-Loved Folktales of the World written by Joanna Cole and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1983-08-09 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566199469
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (994 download)
Download or read book Norse Myths written by Kevin Crossley-Holland and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0804152861
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Favorite Folktales from Around the World written by Jane Yolen and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Cristina Bacchilega
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143133721
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Mermaids written by Cristina Bacchilega and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes "The Little Mermaid," now a major motion picture from Disney starring Halle Bailey and directed by Rob Marshall* Dive into centuries of mermaid lore with these captivating tales from around the world. A Penguin Classic Among the oldest and most popular mythical beings, mermaids and other merfolk have captured the imagination since long before Ariel sold her voice to a sea witch in the beloved Disney film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid." As far back as the eighth century B.C., sailors in Homer's Odyssey stuffed wax in their ears to resist the Sirens, who lured men to their watery deaths with song. More than two thousand years later, the gullible New York public lined up to witness a mummified "mermaid" specimen that the enterprising showman P. T. Barnum swore was real. The Penguin Book of Mermaids is a treasury of such tales about merfolk and water spirits from different cultures, ranging from Scottish selkies to Hindu water-serpents to Chilean sea fairies. A third of the selections are published here in English for the first time, and all are accompanied by commentary that explores their undercurrents, showing us how public perceptions of this popular mythical hybrid--at once a human and a fish--illuminate issues of gender, spirituality, ecology, and sexuality. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Neil Philip
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of English Folktales written by Neil Philip and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1992 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 100 memorable tales, this extensive collection brings together stirring stories from all parts of Scotland--from the vibrant Gaelic traditional Highlands and Islands to the enduring legends handed down by the Lowland Scots.
Author : Inea Bushnaq
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Arab Folktales written by Inea Bushnaq and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141392541
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)
Download or read book Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle' In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Half the tales here are true oral tales, collected by folklorists during the last two centuries, while the others are reworkings of oral tales by four great Russian writers: Alexander Pushkin, Nadezhda Teffi, Pavel Bazhov and Andrey Platonov. In his introduction to these new translations, Robert Chandler writes about the primitive magic inherent in these tales and the taboos around them, while in the afterword, Sibelan Forrester discusses the witch Baba Yaga. This edition also includes an appendix, bibliography and notes. Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler With Sibelan Forrester, Anna Gunin and Olga Meerson
Author : Jay Rubin
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014139563X
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories written by Jay Rubin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included here - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new finds. From Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to Yuten Sawanishi's 'Filling Up with Sugar', from Shin'ichi Hoshi's 'Shoulder-Top Secretary' to Banana Yoshimoto's 'Bee Honey', The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is filled with fear, charm, beauty and comedy. Curated by Jay Rubin, who has himself freshly translated several of the stories, and introduced by Haruki Murakami, this book will be a revelation to its readers.
Author : Neil Philip
Publisher : Peter Smith Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780844667294
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (672 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of English Folktales written by Neil Philip and published by Peter Smith Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth Manning-Sanders
Publisher : Methuen Childrens Books
ISBN 13 : 9780416253900
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (539 download)
Download or read book Scottish Folk Tales written by Ruth Manning-Sanders and published by Methuen Childrens Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk and fairy tales come from all around the world, but Scottish stories have an age-old atmosphere which sets them apart. The fourteen in this collection are varied and each has at least one classic folk talk ingredient - fairies, ghosts, wizards, sea monsters, frog-princes, mermaids and tiny green men are just some of the characters to be found in these ancient legends.
Author : Henry Glassie
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780140175813
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (758 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Irish Folktales written by Henry Glassie and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Patrick Hearn
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0375714553
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Fairy Tale Book written by Michael Patrick Hearn and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2002-12-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray’s The Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahme’s The Reluctant Dragon and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them amuse, some enchant, some satirize and criticize, but each one is an expression of the joy of living. Accompanied by illustrations from the original editions of these works this collection will delight readers both young and old. Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Author : Julia Bishop
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141964324
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs written by Julia Bishop and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Spectator's Books of the Year 2012 'Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain For we've received orders for to sail for old England But we hope in a short while to see you again' One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. They have thrived when sung on a whim to a handful of friends in a pub; they have bewitched generations of English composers who have set them for everything from solo violin to full orchestra; they are sung in concerts, festivals, weddings, funerals and with nobody to hear but the singer. This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-known discoveries, complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning. Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, it is a worthy successor to Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.L.Lloyd's original Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. 'Her keen eye did glitter like the bright stars by night The robe she was wearing was costly and white Her bare neck was shaded with her long raven hair And they called her pretty Susan, the pride of Kildare' In association with EFDSS, the English Folk Dance and Song Society
Author : Anitha Murthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789388874762
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Great Folk Tales of the World written by Anitha Murthy and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel around the world with this glorious collection of best-loved folk tales. Harisharman, a poor man from India, pretends he has magical powers and can solve any problem. But what will he do when the king himself asks for his help to find the gold stolen from the royal treasury? In ancient Arabia, Ameen Beg meets a scary ghoul. With just some salt and an egg, he outsmarts the ghoul and makes him run away fast and far. In distant Eastern Europe, a king is furious with his attendant George. The only way George can escape punishment is by finding the mysterious maid with the golden hair. Will he be able to find her and bring her to his king? Meet these and many other odd and wonderful characters--wily witches from Australia, brave and just eagles from North America, magician-giants from South America and boastful tailors from Scotland--in these captivating stories. There are tales of love and humour, of adventure and daredevilry, of ogres and animals. Beautifully illustrated and skilfully retold, this collection will thrill and charm readers young and old.
