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The Watkins Book Of English Folktales
The Watkins Book Of English Folktales
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Binding: Hardcover
Description: With a foreword by Neil Gaiman this comprehensive entertaining and authentic collection of English folktales is perfect for fans of Madeline Miller Philip Pullman and the Brothers Grimm. This is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Read these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art when the audience believed in boggarts and hobgoblins local witches and will - o - the - wisps ghosts and giants cunning foxes and royal frogs. Find Jack the Giantkiller Tom Tit Tot and other quintessentially English favourites alongside interesting borrowings such as an English version of the Grimms Little Snow White as well as bedtime frighteners including Captain Murderer as told to Charles Dickens by his childhood nurse. Neil Philip has provided a full introduction and source notes on each story that illustrate each tale's journey from mouth to page and what has happened to them on the way. These tales rank among the finest English short stories of all time in their richness of metaphor and plot and their great verbal dash and daring.
Title: The Watkins Book Of English Folktales
Author(s): Philip Neil
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Barcode: 9781786787095
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 10/11/2022
Category: Folklore, Myths & Legends
Description: With a foreword by Neil Gaiman this comprehensive entertaining and authentic collection of English folktales is perfect for fans of Madeline Miller Philip Pullman and the Brothers Grimm. This is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Read these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art when the audience believed in boggarts and hobgoblins local witches and will - o - the - wisps ghosts and giants cunning foxes and royal frogs. Find Jack the Giantkiller Tom Tit Tot and other quintessentially English favourites alongside interesting borrowings such as an English version of the Grimms Little Snow White as well as bedtime frighteners including Captain Murderer as told to Charles Dickens by his childhood nurse. Neil Philip has provided a full introduction and source notes on each story that illustrate each tale's journey from mouth to page and what has happened to them on the way. These tales rank among the finest English short stories of all time in their richness of metaphor and plot and their great verbal dash and daring.
Title: The Watkins Book Of English Folktales
Author(s): Philip Neil
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Barcode: 9781786787095
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 10/11/2022
Category: Folklore, Myths & Legends