Italian Folktales

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Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567923933
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Goat-Faced Girl written by and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2009 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Isabella, a beautiful but lazy young woman, agrees to marry an equally lazy prince, the sorceress who raised her gives her the head of a goat in hopes that she will learn to do things for herself.

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544283228
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Folktales written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Times’s Ten Best Books of the Year: These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are “a treasure” (Los Angeles Times). Filled with kings and peasants, saints and ogres—as well as some quite extraordinary plants and animals—these two hundred tales bring to life Italy’s folklore, sometimes with earthy humor, sometimes with noble mystery, and sometimes with the playfulness of sheer nonsense. Selected and retold by one of the country’s greatest literary icons, “this collection stands with the finest folktale collections anywhere” (The New York Times Book Review). “For readers of any age . . . A masterwork.” —The Wall Street Journal “A magic book, and a classic to boot.” —Time

Author : Thomas Frederick Crane
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 373402935X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Popular Tales written by Thomas Frederick Crane and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane

Author : Lilia E. Romano
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
ISBN 13 : 9780781807029
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Fairy Tales written by Lilia E. Romano and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 11 stories of romance, mischief and adventure interweave Italy's traditions and heritage with fantasy and folklore. Beautiful princesses, magical animals, handsome princes, fearsome witches and ogres all play their roles in these tales. With captivating illustrations on nearly every page, this collection is sure to delight readers of all ages. This classic volume was originally published before 1920, and Hippocrene Books is pleased to bring it back into print for a whole new generation of readers.

Author : Anne Macdonell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486416618
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biancabella and Other Italian Fairy Tales written by Anne Macdonell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of fairy tales, including "Companions of the forest" and "Rags-and-Tatters."

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544146697
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hermit in Paris written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The posthumously published collection Hermit in Paris draws together an array of Italo Calvino's autobiographical writings that provide an illuminating and unexpectedly intimate portrait of one of the postwar era's most inventive and fascinating writers. In these pages, Calvino recounts his experiences in Italy's antifascist resistance, pays homage to his influences, traces the evolution of his literary style, and, in one of the book's most humorous and entertaining sections, provides a wry commentary on his travels in the United States in 1959 and 1960"--

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Folktales written by Italo Calvino and published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. This book was released on 1980 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen by The New York Times as one of its best books in the year of its original publication, this treasure trove of 200 lively Italian folktales has won a cherished place among fans of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. In this collection, Calvino combines a sensibility attuned to the fantastical with a singular writerly ability to capture the visions and dreams of a culture.

Author : Elizabeth Mathias
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814321225
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Folktales in America written by Elizabeth Mathias and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers fairy tales told by Clementina Todesco, an Italian immigrant, offers background information about her life in Italy and America, and explains how and when the tales were told

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069122465X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales written by and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of magical Italian folk and fairy tales—most in English for the first time The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales presents twenty magical stories published between 1875 and 1914, following Italy’s political unification. In those decades of political and social change, folklorists collected fairy tales from many regions of the country while influential writers invented original narratives in standard Italian, drawing on traditional tales in local dialects, and translated others from France. This collection features a range of these entertaining jewels from such authors as Carlo Collodi, most celebrated for the novel Pinocchio, and Domenico Comparetti, regarded as the Italian Grimm, to Grazia Deledda, the only Italian woman to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. With one exception, all of these tales are appearing in English for the first time. The stories in this volume are linked by themes of metamorphosis: a man turns into a lion, a dove, and an ant; a handsome youth emerges from a pig’s body; and three lovely women rise out of the rinds of pomegranates. There are also more introspective transformations: a self-absorbed princess learns about manners, a melancholy prince finds joy again, and a complacent young woman discovers gratitude. Cristina Mazzoni provides a comprehensive introduction that situates the tales in their cultural and historical context. The collection also includes period illustrations and biographical notes about the authors. Filled with adventures, supernatural and fantastic events, and brave and flawed protagonists, The Pomegranates and Other Modern Italian Fairy Tales will delight, surprise, and astonish.

Author : Giambattista Basile
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387019629
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories from the Pentamerone written by Giambattista Basile and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.