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Author : James R. Foster
Publisher : Galahad Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 0883658836
A comprehensive look at folklore throughout the world. Highlighting the universality of common themes and familiar motifs, it captures the rhythms and the sense of wonder of traditional storytelling at its best.
Author : James Ralph Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Tales
ISBN : 0760745854
Author : Atelia Clarkson
Publisher : Scribner Paper Fiction
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0684177633
This collection contains 66 representative folktales with extensive introductions and background material.
Author : James Ralph Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Tales
ISBN : IND:30000121005494
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Author : Joanna Cole
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1983-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385189491
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 : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226375342
All the selections in Richard M. Dorson's Folktales Told around the World were recorded by expert collectors, and the majority of them are published here for the first time. The tales presented are told in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, and Oceania. Unlike other collections derived in large part from literary texts, this volume meets the criteria of professional folklorists in assembling only authentic examples of folktales as they were orally told. Background information, notes on the narrators, and scholarly commentaries are provided to establish the folkloric character of the tales.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Readers
ISBN : 9781292306605
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fables
ISBN : 1869536673
This timeless, beautifully presented book showcases a treasure-house of many of the world's most entrancing tales. Appealing to all ages, from preschoolers, who will revel in having these stories read to them, to parents and grandparents. Sumptuous images by world-renowned children's illustrator Robert Ingpen.
Author : Anitha Murthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9388874765
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.
Author : Robert R. Potter,Alan H. Robinson
Publisher : Globe Fearon
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0835901866
The Pearson Education Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history trade, animal, sports titles and more!
Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804152860
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 : Eric S. Rabkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1979-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780198020240
As the first international anthology to cover the entire scope of fantastic narrative, Fantastic Worlds presents over fifty tales, myths, and stories, ranging from Genesis to Ovid, Hans Christian Andersen to J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe to James Thurber, and Franz Kafka to Italo Calvino. Including tales of fairies and elves, ghost stories, high fantasy, and stories of social criticism and the conflict between science and religion, this volume presents a diverse selection of writings that all share the same capacity to liberate the human spirit through the wild mental acrobatics of fantasy.
Author : J.K. Jackson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781839649486
From the rift valley come stories of gods, tricksters, cattle and ogres from the many peoples of East Africa. Traditional stories bring a deeper understanding of the movement of peoples across East Africa. Common roots and differences between ancient peoples create a lively portrait with their fragile, powerful gods. The modern nations of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and more inherit the folk and mythic tales of the rift valley region. Here you'll find stories of ogres and tricksters, riddles and poems, figures such as the first man (Gikuyu) and woman (Mumbi), and great heroes of history such as Liongo. This new collection is created for the modern reader. FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.
Author : Brenda E. F. Beck,Peter J. Claus,Praphulladatta Goswami,Jawaharlal Handoo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226040868
Bringing together nearly one hundred tales translated from fourteen languages, Folktales of India opens the vast narrative world of Indian folklore to readers of English. Beck includes oral tales collected from tribal areas, peasant groups, urban areas, and remote villages in north and south India, and the distinctive boundary regions of Kashmir, Assam, and Manipur. The tales in this collection emphasize universal human characteristics—truthfulness, modesty, loyalty, courage, generosity, and honesty. Each story is meant to be savored individually with special attention given to the great range of motifs presented and the many distinct narrative styles used. Folktales of India offers a superb anthology of India's bountiful narrative tradition. "This collection does an excellent job of representing India. . . . It is the type of book that can be enjoyed by all readers who love a well-told tale as well as by scholars of traditional narrative and scholars of India in general."—Hugh M. Flick, Jr., Asian Folklore Studies "The stories collected here are representative, rich in structural subtlety, and endowed with fresh earthy humor."—Kunal Chakraborti, Contributions to Indian Sociology
Author : Nicola Baxter
Publisher : Armadillo Music
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1843228556
80 traditional stories from around the world with evocative illustrations throughout. ,