Tales from the Cloud Walking Country
Tales from the Cloud Walking Country

Author: Marie Campbell

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2000-02-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780820321868

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Assembled here are seventy-eight stories from six of the "ballad-singingest, tale-tellingest" residents of the eastern Kentucky mountain country. Based on stories rooted in European traditions from German fairy tales to Irish hero stories to Greek myths, the tales had been handed down through generations of telling before Marie Campbell collected them in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Readers will recognize the story of Snow White in "A Stepchild That Was Treated Mighty Bad," while "Three Shirts and a Golden Finger Ring" recalls the fairy tale of the Seven Swans. "The Fellow That Married A Dozen Times" is a lively rendition of "Bluebeard." As the narrators cautioned Marie Campbell again and again, "Tale-telling is nigh about faded out in the mountain country," but Tales from the Cloud Walking Country offers a lasting record of history, cultural heritage, language, and good old-fashioned fun.

Tales of the Country
Tales of the Country

Author: Brian Viner

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780750530675

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When Brian and Jane Viner took their three children to live in deepest Herefordshire, after eight years in sophisticated Crouch End, north London, they wondered if they needed their heads examining. They had been happy in the city, with an abundance of like-minded friends and a choice of dozens of places to drink cappuccino; in Herefordshire there were thirty five-barred gates between them and the nearest coffee outlet. Where would they find kindred spirits? What would life be like without mains sewerage?And would they ever stop being what some locals charmingly refer to as 'buggers from off'?

Country Tales
Country Tales

Author: H. E. Bates

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780140169911

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Collection of the best of Bate's stories about the English countryside in 26 tales set in a forgotten rural past.

Tales of the Country
Tales of the Country

Author: Brian Viner

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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The author and his family leave London for the desired serenity of the Herefordshire countryside. They soon discover their new home is a challenge. What with mice, ponies, septic tanks, sceptical locals and trying to find a decent cappuccino, a sense of humour is needed to survive the trials encountered along the way.

Tales for Town and Country
Tales for Town and Country

Author: Tales

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-09-20

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9781343333604

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