Folk Tales and Fantasies
Author: Michael Anthony
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13:
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Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies
Author: Moss Roberts
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2011-09-07
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0307760421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of tales opens up a magical world far from our customary haunts. Ghost stories, romances, fables, and heroic sagas: the forms are familiar, but the characters we meet surprise us at every turn. For those who know and love the tales of the Grimms and Andersen, the universal themes of fairy tale literature emerge in these classic stories, but with a sophistication that is uniquely Chinese and altogether entrancing. With black-and-white drawings throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Forbidden Journeys
Author: Nina Auerbach
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0226032043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroductionPart One: Refashioning Fairy TalesThe Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Anne Thackeray RitchieBeauty and the Beast, Anne Thackeray RitchieThe Brown Bull of Norrowa, Maria Louisa MolesworthAmelia and the Dwarfs, Juliana Horathia EwingPart Two: SubversionsNick, Christina RossettiChristmas Crackers, Julian Horathia EwingBehind the White Brick, Frances Hodgson BurnettMelisande, or, Long and Short Division, E. NesbitFortunatus Rex amp Co., E. NesbitPart Three: A Fantasy NovelMopsa the Fairy, Jean IngelowPart Four: A Trio of AntifantasiesSpeaking Likenesses, Christina RossettiBiographical SketchesFurther Readings Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Tales of Myths and Fantasy
Author: Darryl Gopaul
Publisher: D. Gopaul Consulting & Publishing
Published: 2005-03
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781554300174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile many of these stories deal with tales based on folklore of Trinidad and the West Indies, there is an extention into the imaginary world of outer space and what that may have in store for us.
Tales from the Caribbean
Author: Trish Cooke
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2017-08-03
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0141373261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of favourite tales gathered from the many different islands of the Caribbean, one of the world's richest sources of traditional storytelling. From the very first Kingfisher to Anansi the Spider Man, these lively retellings full of humour and pathos, are beautifully retold by Trish Cooke. The book includes endnotes with a glossary, additional information as well as ideas for activities that children can do to explore the stories further.
Island Tales
Author: Amber Drappier
Publisher:
Published: 2018-11-26
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781730965371
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The lingering smell of wet mould hung in the air, and under the glow of the streetlight, her once shapely form was now a series of lumps and bumps clad in dirty old rags that dragged along the floor."FROM THE AUTHOR OF UNNATURAL ENCOUNTERS: ONLY IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO...Island Tales, a series of twenty-seven folklore stories featuring supernatural beings and characters from across the Caribbean region. Characters who have no doubt haunted the dreams and nightmares and maybe even lives of most Caribbean-born people. Stand among the watchful army of pop-culture statues in "The Sculptor" or join the mob against Blue, the thieving shopkeeper in "Tipping the Scales". Stroll along the riverbanks with Nerida in "Water Baby" or maybe just kick back and enjoy a special feature article in the Sunday newspaper entitled "Endless Cycle". But, however you choose to spend your time here, just be sure to remember one thing: always cast a wary eye behind you, lest you end up like poor Mr. Gundy in "Piggy Back Rides for Mr. Gundy".
Favorite Folktales from Around the World
Author: Jane Yolen
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 0804152861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Africa, Burma, and Czechoslovakia to Turkey, Vietnam, and Wales here are more than 150 of the world's best-loved folktales from more than forty countries and cultures. These tales of wonder and transformation, of heroes and heroines, of love lost and won, of ogres and trolls, stories both jocular and cautionary and legends of pure enchantment will delight readers and storytellers of all ages. With black-and-white drawings throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
The Year in San Fernando
Author: Michael Anthony
Publisher: Hodder Education
Published: 2021-06-28
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1398342572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society. This luminous book recounted through the eyes of the 12-year-old Francis, describes the year he spends, far away from home, in San Fernando. As his initial confusion gives way to increasing confidence and maturity, the open consciousness of the boy allows different times, events and places to co-exist. Over the course of one year, through Francis' eyes, we see the cycle of natural change and progression; the daily round of the market, showing the fruits of different seasons, the passage of dry season to rainy and back again to dry, the cane fires as the crop comes to an end, all symbolising the progression of the boy's year. And weaving in and amongst these mundane but intense experiences Francis feels his way to some understanding of adulthood.
Creole Folktales (Large Print 16pt)
Author: Patrick Chamoiseau
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2011-02
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1459603141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this unusual collection of stories and fables, Goncourt prize-winner Patrick Chamoiseau re-creates in truly magical language the stories he heard as a child in Martinique....
Fairy Tales of London
Author: Hadas Elber-Aviram
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-01-28
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1350110698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinalist for the 2022 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies From the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy. Charting a new history of London fantasy writing from the Victorian era to the 21st century, Fairy Tales of London explores a powerful tradition of urban fantasy distinct from the rural tales of writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien. Hadas Elber-Aviram traces this urban tradition from Dickens, through the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, the anti-fantasies of George Orwell and Mervyn Peake to contemporary science fiction and fantasy writers such as Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman and China Miéville.
