[PDF] Southern African Folktales eBook

Author : James A. Honey
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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This collection of folktales from South Africa has been put together the author says, not for scholarship but for a love of the sunny country where he was born. Some stories originate from Dutch sources, and some have several versions. Most are tales told by the bushmen.

Author : Various
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0956058450

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This unique and exquisite collection of folk tales and legends from South Africa, originally published in 1910, is now being resurrected to benefit those young South Africans who would not normally receive a full education.

Author : J.K. Jackson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1804177016

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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 : Elphinstone Dayrell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395539637

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Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit.

Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Folk tales of the world
ISBN : 0393052125

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Mandela, the Nobel Laureate for Peace, has selected 32 African stories for this extraordinary new book, an anthology that presents Africa's oldest folk tales to the children of the world. Full color.

Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393326246

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Favorite African Folktales is a landmark work that gathers many of Africa's most cherished folktales-stories from an oral heritage that predates Ovid and Aesop-in one extraordinary volume. Nelson Mandela has selected these thirty-two tales, many of them translated from their original tongues, with the specific hope that Africa's oldest stories, as well as a few new ones, will be perpetuated by future generations and appreciated by children and adults throughout the world. Book jacket.

Author : Lucy Pollard-Gott, PhD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 2010-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1440154406

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Some of the most influential and interesting people in the world are fictional. Sherlock Holmes, Huck Finn, Pinocchio, Anna Karenina, Genji, and Superman, to name a few, may not have walked the Earth (or flown, in Superman's case), but they certainly stride through our lives. They influence us personally: as childhood friends, catalysts to our dreams, or even fantasy lovers. Peruvian author and presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa, for one, confessed to a lifelong passion for Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Characters can change the world. Witness the impact of Solzhenitsyn's Ivan Denisovich, in exposing the conditions of the Soviet Gulag, or Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom, in arousing anti-slavery feeling in America. Words such as quixotic, oedipal, and herculean show how fictional characters permeate our language. This list of the Fictional 100 ranks the most influential fictional persons in world literature and legend, from all time periods and from all over the world, ranging from Shakespeare's Hamlet [1] to Toni Morrison's Beloved [100]. By tracing characters' varied incarnations in literature, art, music, and film, we gain a sense of their shape-shifting potential in the culture at large. Although not of flesh and blood, fictional characters have a life and history of their own. Meet these diverse and fascinating people. From the brash Hercules to the troubled Holden Caulfield, from the menacing plots of Medea to the misguided schemes of Don Quixote, The Fictional 100 runs the gamut of heroes and villains, young and old, saints and sinners. Ponder them, fall in love with them, learn from their stories the varieties of human experience--let them live in you.

Author : Roger Abrahams
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307803198

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The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages—from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished American folklorist Roger D. Abrahams has selected ninety-five tales that suggest both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the people who live there. The storytellers weave imaginative myths of creation and tales of epic deeds, chilling ghost stories, and ribald tales of mischief and magic in the animal and human realms. Abrahams renders these stories in a narrative voice that reverberates with the rhythms of tribal song and dance and the emotional language of universal concerns. With black-and-white drawings throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library