Dear Old Story-Tellers

Dear Old Story-Tellers

Author: Oscar Fay Adams

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-04-11

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 3846048151

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1889.


Dear Old Story-tellers

Dear Old Story-tellers

Author: Oscar Fay Adams

Publisher:

Published: 1889

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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Biographical sketches of twelve famous storytellers and writers such as Homer, Aesop, Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, and Daniel Defoe.


About Old Story-tellers

About Old Story-tellers

Author: Donald Grant Mitchell

Publisher:

Published: 1878

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Selections from such traditional favorites as Gulliver's travels, The Arabian nights, Robinson Crusoe, and Ivanhoe accompanied by background information on the authors, the times in which they lived, and the origins of the stories.


Hans Christian Andersen in American Literary Criticism of the Nineteenth Century

Hans Christian Andersen in American Literary Criticism of the Nineteenth Century

Author: Herbert Rowland

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1683932676

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In Hans Christian Andersen in American Literary Criticism of the Nineteenth Century, Herbert Rowland argues that the literary criticism accompanying the publication of Hans Christian Andersen’s works in the United States compares favorably in scope, perceptiveness, and chronological coverage with the few other national receptions of Andersen outside of Denmark. Rowland contends that American commentators made it abundantly evident that, in addition to his fairy tales, Andersen wrote several novels, travelogues, and an autobiography which were all of more than common interest. In the process, Rowland shows that American commentators “naturalized” Andersen in the United States by confronting the sensationalism in the journalism and literature of the time with the perceived wholesomeness of Andersen’s writing, deploying his long fiction on both sides of the debate over the nature and relative value of the romance and the novel, and drawing on three of his works to support their positions on slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.


The Storyteller

The Storyteller

Author: Jodi Picoult

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-02-26

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1439149704

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An astonishing novel about redemption and forgiveness from the “amazingly talented writer” (HuffPost) and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult. Some stories live forever... Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that others can’t. Everything changes on the day that Josef confesses a long-buried and shame­ful secret and asks Sage for an extraordinary favor. If she says yes, she faces not only moral repercussions, but potentially legal ones as well. With the integrity of the closest friend she’s ever had clouded, Sage begins to question the assumptions and expectations she’s made about her life and her family. In this searingly honest novel, Jodi Picoult gracefully explores the lengths to which we will go in order to keep the past from dictating the future.