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A Harvest of World Folk Tales

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Description:A rich collection of the tales men have told for nearly 4000 years from ancient Egypt and Peru to the new America of mining - and logging-camp days. The selection is balanced between familiar stories and those which will be fresh discoveries to all but the specialists. many are from rare and unusual sources; some were first written down by anthropologists making studies of primitive societies; others stem from the Brothers Grimm and Andersen and other well-known authorities. The editor has weighed all existing versions and in each case picked the most readable - many translations are by distinguished authors. The book is divided into nineteen representative world areas: Africa, American, American Indian, Arabian and Turkish, Chinese, Egyptian, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Indian, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Latin American, Russian, Scandinavian, Spanish. All categories of folk tales are included: Marchen, legends, myths, jests and drolls, fabliaux, fairy tales, fables, tall tales; romantic, and fantastic tales; ghost stories and animal stories; moral tales and mystery stories.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Harvest of World Folk Tales. To get started finding A Harvest of World Folk Tales, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 728

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: The Viking Press

Release: 1968

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Description: A rich collection of the tales men have told for nearly 4000 years from ancient Egypt and Peru to the new America of mining - and logging-camp days. The selection is balanced between familiar stories and those which will be fresh discoveries to all but the specialists. many are from rare and unusual sources; some were first written down by anthropologists making studies of primitive societies; others stem from the Brothers Grimm and Andersen and other well-known authorities. The editor has weighed all existing versions and in each case picked the most readable - many translations are by distinguished authors. The book is divided into nineteen representative world areas: Africa, American, American Indian, Arabian and Turkish, Chinese, Egyptian, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Indian, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Latin American, Russian, Scandinavian, Spanish. All categories of folk tales are included: Marchen, legends, myths, jests and drolls, fabliaux, fairy tales, fables, tall tales; romantic, and fantastic tales; ghost stories and animal stories; moral tales and mystery stories.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Harvest of World Folk Tales. To get started finding A Harvest of World Folk Tales, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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