ISBN:
9781576072721
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (387 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Italian Popular Tales
DDC:
398.20945
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
An important reintroduction to this literature, this compilation of Thomas Crane's original translations of Italian folk stories includes new critical analysis. In the mid-19th century, at a time when stories told by common folk were considered worthless superstitions, Thomas Frederick Crane began to gather and study Italian popular tales-fairy stories, nursery tales, and jests
Description / Table of Contents:
Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Preface to this Edition; I Fairy Tales; II Fairy Tales Continued; III Stories of Oriental Origin; IV Legends and Ghost Stories; V Nursery Tales; VI Stories and Jests; Notes; List of Works Referred To; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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