[PDF] Best Loved Folktales Of The World eBook

Author : Joanna Cole
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 1983-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385189494

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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 : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804152861

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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 : Atelia Clarkson
Publisher : Scribner Paper Fiction
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 1982-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780684177632

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This collection contains 66 representative folktales with extensive introductions and background material.

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Publisher : august house
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780874834222

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Includes twenty-seven folktales from Europe, Asia, Africa, India, the Arctic, and the Americas.

Author : James R. Foster
Publisher : Galahad Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 1994-10
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9780883658833

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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 : Kathleen Ragan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393045987

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Collects 100 tales from around the world, including Africa, Western Europe, Native American cultures, Asia, and the Middle East, that feature a heroine.

Author : Brenda E. F. Beck
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226040860

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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 : Anitha Murthy
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9789388874762

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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 : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152020477

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A collection of thirteen traditional tales from various parts of the world, with the main character of each being a fearless, strong, heroic, and resourceful woman.

Author : Katharine M. Briggs
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 022637582X

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“The most satisfactory general collection of folktales to come out of England since the advent of modern collection and classification techniques.”—Journal of American Folklore Tales of unnatural beings, curses, and ghosts, tall tales, shaggy dog stories—this collection from a renowned British folklorist offers a wide historical range, as well as commentaries. If wonder tales are not as abundant in England as elsewhere, other kinds of folktales thrive: local traditions, historical legends, humorous anecdotes. Many of the favorite tales which English-speaking peoples carry with them from childhood come from a long tradition—stories as familiar to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Spenser, and their many contemporaries as they are to us. This volume is a “fine, homely feast” for anyone interested in the folklore of the world (Times Educational Supplement). “Should be of special concern to Americans since many of the tales are parallel to or the source of our own folk stories.”—Choice “This is entertainment, to be sure, but is also part of man’s attempts to comprehend his world.”—Quartet