Favorite Fairy Tales Told Around the World
Title | Favorite Fairy Tales Told Around the World PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Haviland |
Publisher | Little Brown |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780316350440 |
A compendium of stories from the author's previous books, with several tales from each of sixteen countries.
Favorite Folktales from Around the World
Title | Favorite Folktales from Around the World PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Yolen |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0804152861 |
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
Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Spain
Title | Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Haviland |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 1995-04-25 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780688126056 |
Includes "The Flea," " Four Brothers Who Were Both Wise and Foolish," "The Half-Chick," "The Carlanco," "Juan Cigarron," and "The Enchanted Mule."
Folktales Told Around the World
Title | Folktales Told Around the World PDF eBook |
Author | Richard M. Dorson |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 661 |
Release | 2016-05-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 022637534X |
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.
The World's Best Fairy Tales
Title | The World's Best Fairy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Fritz Kredel |
Publisher | Reader's Digest Association (Canada) |
Pages | 832 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Fairy tales |
ISBN | 9780895770783 |
A collection of sixty-nine well-known fairy tales from around the world, translated and gathered by recognized contributors to the field of folklore.
Favorite Fairy Tales
Title | Favorite Fairy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Logan Howard-Smith |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2022-08-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Favorite Fairy Tales" by Logan Howard-Smith. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Title | The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Grimm |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-01-06 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 9789387779693 |
Once upon a time in a fairy tale world, There were magical mirrors and golden slippers;Castles and fields and mountains of glass,Houses of bread and windows of sugar.Frogs transformed into handsome Princes,And big bad wolves into innocent grandmothers.There were evil queens and wicked stepmothers;Sweethearts, true brides, and secret lovers. In the same fairy world, A poor boy has found a golden key and an iron chest, and " We must wait until he has quite unlocked it and opened the lid . . ." A classic collection of timeless folk tales by Grimm Brothers, Grimm' s Fairy Tales are not only enchanting, mysterious, and amusing, but also frightening and intriguing. Delighting children and adults alike, these tales have undergone several adaptations over the decades. This edition with black-and-white illustrations is a translation by Margaret Hunt.