Joseph Jacobs
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Literature of folklore ; 509:3
Language
English
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The 1892 collection "Celtic Fairy Tales" is a beautiful anthology which highlights Celtic children's literature. Folklorist Joseph Jacobs spent his entire career gathering a host of fairy tales known in the English language and compiling them into a number of anthologies. Celtic Fairy Tales includes popular stories such as "Conall Yellowclaw," "The Sea-Maiden," and "Battle of the Birds," all of which were gathered straight from oral tradition by Jacobs...
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English
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Excerpt: "From the extreme West of the Indo-European world, we go this year to the extreme East. From the soft rain and green turf of Gaeldom, we seek the garish sun and arid soil of the Hindoo. In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism. Soils and national characters differ; but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in...
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English
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Balthasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) assumed his final vows of the Jesuits in 1635, having been raised by his uncle, a priest, and studying theology in Zaragoza, Spain. Gracián became quite famous as a preacher, and wrote a number of literary works concerning politics, practical advice for life, and philosophy. Today he is known as the most representative writer of the Spanish baroque style called Conceptismo (Conceptism), a literary style characterized...
7) Tattercoats
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Retells the traditional English tale of how poor, neglected Tattercoats comes to marry the Prince.
Author
Series
Macmillan classics ; 27
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
Adaptations of eighty-two of Aesop's best known fables. Includesa brief history of the fables.
19) The three wishes
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[1961]
Language
English
Description
Another version of "be careful what you wish for."
