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LEADER: 04430cam 2200625 a 4500
001 ocm27266661
003 OCoLC
005 20200622071731.0
008 921228s1993 maua b 000 0 eng
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050 00 $aGR552$b.S43 1993
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130 0 $aSecond Virago book of fairy tales.
245 10 $aStrange things sometimes still happen :$bfairy tales from around the world /$cedited by Angela Carter ; illustrated by Corinna Sargood.
260 $aBoston :$bFaber and Faber,$c1993.
300 $axvii, 233 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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500 $aBritish ed. published in 1992 under title: The Second Virago book of fairy tales.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-230).
520 $a"With an eye for the bizarre, an ear for the eccentric, and a longstanding fascination with the female dominated tradition of story telling, Carter has chosen forty-five tales from twenty-three cultures that revel in women's cunning and high spirits, wisdom and imagination."--Jacket.
505 0 $aAcknowledgments (p.vii) -- Introduction / Marina Warner (p.ix) -- Strong minds and low cunning. The twelve wild ducks (p.3) -- Old Foster (p.10) -- Sahin (p.13) -- The dog's snout people (p.27) -- The old woman against the stream (p.29) -- The letter trick (p.32) -- Rolando and Brunhilde (p.34) -- The greenish bird (p.37) -- The crafty woman (p.44) -- Up to something -- black arts and dirty tricks. Pretty maid Ibronka (p.49) -- Enchanter and enchantress (p.61) -- The telltale lilac bush (p.64) -- Tatterhood (p.65) -- The witchball (p.72) -- The werefox (p.74) -- The witches' piper (p.76) -- Vasilissa the fair (p.78) -- The midwife and the frog (p.87).
505 0 $aCont.): Beautiful people. Fair, brown and trembling (p.95) -- Diirawic and her incestuous brother (p.104) -- The mirror (p.118) -- The frog maiden (p.119) -- The sleeping prince (p.123) -- The orphan (p.126) -- Mothers and daughters. Achol and her wild mother (p.135) -- Tunjur, Tunjur (p.139) -- The little old woman with five cows (p.144) -- Achol and her adoptive lioness-mother (p.152) -- Married women. Story of a bird woman (p.159) -- Father and mother both 'fast' (p.162) -- Reason to beat your wife (p.163) -- The three lovers (p.165) -- The seven leavenings (p.167) -- The untrue wife's song (p.173) -- The woman who married her son (p.174) -- Duang and his wild wife (p.177) -- A stroke of luck (p.184) -- The beans in the quart jar (p.186).
505 0 $aCont.): Useful stories. A fable of a bird and her chicks (p.191) -- The three aunts (p.192) -- Tale of an old woman (p.196) -- The height of purple passion (p.198) -- Salt, sauce and spice, onion leaves, pepper and drippings (p.199) -- Two sisters and the boa (p.202) -- Spreading the fingers (p.207) -- Publisher's note (p.210) -- Notes / Angela Carter and Shahrukh Husain (p.211) -- About the editor and illustrator (p.233).
650 0 $aFairy tales.
650 0 $aWomen$xFolklore.
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650 7 $aWomen.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01176568
650 17 $aVrouwen.$2gtt
650 04 $aFairy tales$vChildren's nonfiction.
655 7 $aFairy tales.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01726605
655 7 $aFolklore.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423784
655 7 $aFairy tales.$2gsafd
655 7 $aFairy tales.$2lcgft
700 1 $aCarter, Angela,$d1940-1992.
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