Tail Of Tales

Author : Giambattista Basile
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101937814X

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The Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile Pdf

A classic collection of fairy tales from the Italian tradition, full of wit, humor, and imagination. Basile's storytelling is as enchanting now as it was when it was first published over four hundred years ago. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Giambattista Basile
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780814328668

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Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, Or, Entertainment for Little Ones by Giambattista Basile Pdf

The first unabridged English translation taken directly from Basile's monumental Lo cunto de li cunti (1634-1636), this edition is fully annotated and illustrated, with an extensive bibliography.

Author : Clare Kitson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253218381

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Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales by Clare Kitson Pdf

Widely acclaimed as the best animated film of all time, Tale of Tales is a poetic amalgam of Yuri Norstein's memories of his past and hopes and fears for the future: his post-war childhood, remnants of the personal tragedies of war, the little wolf character in the lullaby his mother used to sing, the neighbors in his crowded communal flat, the tango played in the park on summer evenings, and the small working-class boy's longing to emerge from the dark central corridor of the kommunalka into a luminous world of art and poetry. In Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator's Journey, Clare Kitson examines the passage of these motifs into the film and delves into later influences that also affected its genesis. More than merely a study of one animated film or a biography of its creator, Kitson's investigation encompasses the Soviet culture from which this landmark film emerged and sheds light on creative influences that shaped the work of this acclaimed filmmaker.

Author : Christopher Stace
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527526525

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A Translation of Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales by Christopher Stace Pdf

Composed in the 1630s, Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales, later known as the Pentameron, is a sophisticated, affectionate, often wicked parody of Boccaccio’s 14th century masterpiece, the Decameron, containing fifty tales within an intricate framing story. Importantly, among its stories are the earliest literary versions of famous fairy tales such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, The Sleeping Beauty and Hansel and Gretel. This is only the fourth translation of the complete text into English. With its scholarly introduction, notes, and up-to-date bibliography, it will appeal to anyone studying European literature or the fairy tale in general, its history and subsequent development, as well as anyone wishing to trace specific themes within the genre and their different treatments.

Author : David Farland
Publisher : Orbit Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1841498440

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A Tale of Tales by David Farland Pdf

The next compelling instalment in this rich and detailed fantasy epic about a world in conflict.

Author : Emma Donoghue
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447248149

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Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue Pdf

Fairytales with a twist from the Man Booker and Orange prize-shortlisted author of Room. In Kissing the Witch, Emma Donoghue unwinds thirteen fairy tales and writes them anew: Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother, Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror, and Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire. In these stories, Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances – sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed.

Author : Giambattista Basile
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Folk tales, Italian
ISBN : UCSD:31822043032663

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Il Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile Pdf

Author : Adam Gidwitz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101445280

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A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz Pdf

In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind (and beyond) the bread crumbs, edible houses, and outwitted witches. Fairy tales have never been more irreverent or subversive as Hansel and Gretel learn to take charge of their destinies and become the clever architects of their own happily ever after.

Author : Giambattista Basile
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143129141

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The Tale of Tales by Giambattista Basile Pdf

A rollicking, bawdy collection of 50 fairy tales told by 10 storytellers over five days follows the compilation efforts of 17th-century Italian poet Giambattista Basile and traces the experiences of a cursed princess who would win back her betrothed.

Author : Armando Maggi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226242965

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Preserving the Spell by Armando Maggi Pdf

Once upon a time, glass slippers, poison apples, evil stepmothers, fairy godmothers, and princes charming exerted a magnetic hold, cast a magic spell, on adults and children alike. Real-life anxieties fostered a need for stories that assuage. But the world changes, and Maggi asks here whether fairy tales have found a way to transform themselves to keep up. He says no, they haven t. The genre of fairy tale has become contaminated, it has been entitized, like processed food, fossilized as Disney-esque icons. We need to rediscover the marvelous, the oneiric trance of dazzling dreams or horrid torments. We need a new mythic lens to help us understand reality, but to chart what that might be, it is necessary to understand the history of the various traditions of oral and written narrative that intersect with each other across time and space. He goes to Giambattista Basile for the Ur fairy tales, with a special focus on the emblematic Cupid and Psyche myth, an anchor for Maggi s wide-ranging investigation of essential variations on fairy tales (with oppositions of beauty/ugly, human/divine, apparent/real). The transformations of later Italian, French, English, and German traditions come to a head with the Brothers Grimm in 19t-century Germany. Maggi brilliantly weaves the traditions into the 20th century, in memoirs such as those by Joan Didion, in postmodern novels such as Robert Coover s, and, in a final manifestation, in the convulsively, bleakly beautiful movie, "Beasts of the Southern Wild." This book offers profound reflections on reading fairy tales, on the inherent human need for narrative-myth (and, ultimately, for hope), showing us why we tell tales and how these stories transform over time. He offers, in an appendix, the first translation of the original Grimm edition of Basile s 50 tales."

Author : LTC Clifton H. Deringer Jr. USA (Ret.) “Tip”
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480935631

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A Tale of Tales of Tails by LTC Clifton H. Deringer Jr. USA (Ret.) “Tip” Pdf

A Tale of Tales of Tails: Animals in My Life by LTC Clifton H. Deringer Jr. USA (Ret.) “Tip” Sometimes the biggest impressions on a life can come in the form of a four-legged friend. In A Tale of Tales of Tails: Animals in My Life, LTC Clifton H. Deringer Jr. USA (Ret.) “Tip” recollects the beloved pets throughout his lifetime. Through his retellings, Deringer works to inspire love and happiness with four-legged companions.

Author : Minsoo Kang
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780809557967

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Of Tales and Enigmas by Minsoo Kang Pdf

A beautiful lady who can only be seen from far away, a machine that generates an entire civilization, a king who loves the hidden life of an inanimate statue, a city that appears once a year across a great chasm, an ancient Korean king assassinated in the dark of the night, a ghost that haunts soldiers on the DMZ - these are just some of the marvels you will encounter in these stories from the transcultural and metafictional imagination of Minsoo Kang. In diverse narratives grouped under the titles of Tales from a Lost History, Fables of the Dream World, and Stories from an Imaginary Homeland, Kang explores the nature and possibilities of storytelling itself as he spins out variations on an episodic theme, reinterprets an old myth, and struggles with a past that seeks a voice in the present. The result is a marvelously surrealistic landscape where histories, ideas, and legends freely intermingle and dance to the music of wonder and longing.

Author : Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm
Publisher : epubli
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9783748510314

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Rapunzel by Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm Pdf

Meet Rapunzel, the girl with the beautiful long hair, who lives in a tall tower without doors, and find out how she got there. Will the prince, who fell in love with her voice, be able to rescue her? Or will the witch get on to them? Get to know the world-famous fairy tale, originally published by the Brothers Grimm, beautifully illustrated and retold to the needs of small children.

Author : E. B. White
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062408211

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Stuart Little by E. B. White Pdf

The classic story by E. B. White, author of the Newbery Honor Book Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan, about one small mouse on a very big adventure. Now available as an ebook! Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though he's shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure. Stuart's greatest adventure comes when his best friend, a beautiful little bird named Margalo, disappears from her nest. Determined to track her down, Stuart ventures away from home for the very first time in his life. He finds adventure aplenty. But will he find his friend? Stuart Little joins E. B. White favorites Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan as classic illustrated novels that continue to speak to today's readers. Whether you curl up with your young reader to share these books or hand them off for independent reading, you are helping to create what are likely to be all-time favorite reading memories.

Author : Giambattista Basile
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387019629

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Stories from the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile Pdf

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.