The Penguin book of world folk tales

originally published as A harvest of world folk tales

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The Penguin book of world folk tales

originally published as A harvest of world folk tales

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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: African, 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: Märchen, 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.

"This is an unusually comprehensive and thoughtfully selected collection... distinguished from most of its kind by Mr. Rugoff's informative commentaries." -The New York Times

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Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
734

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reprint of the 1968 ed. published by Viking Press, New York.

Published in
Harmondsworth, Eng, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
398.2/08
Library of Congress
GR74 .R83 1977, GR76

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 734 p. :
Number of pages
734

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4536610M
Internet Archive
penguinbookofwor00rugo
ISBN 10
0140045252
LCCN
77002625
OCLC/WorldCat
2818573
Library Thing
2172268
Goodreads
2349835

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