The Old Wives' Tale
Author: Arnold Bennett
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 352
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Author: Arnold Bennett
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Peele
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 38
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Angela Carter
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labour created our world." -- From the Introduction There was a time when fairy tales weren't meant just for children -- they were part of an oral folklore tradition passed down through generations. This volume of sixty enchanting and enduring tales, collected by master storyteller Angela Carter, revives the industry, eccentricity, spirit, and worldly wisdom of women in preindustrial times. Drawn from narrative traditions all around the world -- from ancient Swahili legends to Appalachian tall tales to European spirit stories and more -- these tales together comprise a unique feminine mythology. Angela Carter (1940-1992) was widely known for her novels, short stories, and journalism. Her many books include The Magic Toy Shop, The Sadeian Woman, Nights at the Circus, Fireworks, and Saints and Strangers.
Author: Peter H. Engel
Publisher: St Martins Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780312098896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssesses the truth and falsehood of one hundred examples of conventional wisdom
Author: Mary Chamberlain
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-05-30
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0752486799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom goddesses and witches to modern-day doctors—an entertaining history of women healers featuring an A–Z of remedies The woman healer is as old as history—for millennia she has been doctor, nurse, and midwife, and even in the age of modern medicine her wisdom is handed down in the form of old wives' tales. Using extensive research into archives and original texts, and numerous conversations with women in city and countryside, Mary Chamberlain presents a stimulating challenge to the history of orthodox medicine and an illuminating survey of female wisdom which goes back to the earliest times.What are old wives’ tales? Where do they come from? Do they really work? These questions, and many more, are answered in this fascinating compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time. We may all know that stewed prunes are a cure for constipation, but how many of us were aware that a poultice of chicken manure is a remedy for baldness? Or that eel liver will aid a difficult labor?
Author: Iris Andreski
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA delightful little book about the daily life and thought of Ibibio women of southeastern Nigeria. Andreski has gathered stories and biographies from more than two dozen elderly women, has tried to put them in ethnological perspective and shows the differential impact of rapid social changes.
Author: Aida Edemariam
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2018-02-22
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0007459610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A CBC BOOK OF THE YEAR The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman – and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia’s history. A new Wild Swans
Author: Arnold Bennett
Publisher: General Books
Published: 2009-08
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781458931269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III A BATTLE The day sanctioned by custom in the Five Towns for the making of pastry is Saturday. But Mrs. Baines made her pastry on Friday, because Saturday afternoon was, of course, a busy time in the shop. It is true that Mrs. Baines made her pastry in the morning, and that Saturday morning in the shop was scarcely different from any other morning. Nevertheless, Mrs. Baines made her pastry on Friday morning instead of Saturday morning because Saturday afternoon was a busy time in the shop. She was thus free to do her marketing without breath-taking flurry on Saturday morning. On the morning after Sophia's first essay in dentistry, therefore, Mrs. Baines was making her pastry in the underground kitchen. This kitchen, Maggie's cavern-home, had the inystery of a church, and on dark days it had the mystery of a crypt. The stone steps leading down to it from the level of earth were quite unlighted. You felt for them with the feet of faith, and when you arrived m te kitchen, the kitchen, by contrast, seemed luminous and gay; the architect may have considered and intended this effect of the staircase. The kitchen saw day through a wide, shallow window whose top touched the ceiling and whose bottom had been out of the girls' reach until long after they had begun to go to school. Its panes were small, and about half of them were of the "knot" kind, through which no object could be distinguished; the other half were of a later date, and stood for the march of civilization. The view from the window consisted of the vast plate-glass windows of the newly built Sun vaults, and of passing legs and skirts. A strong wire grating prevented any excess of illumination, and also protected the glass from the caprices of wayfarers in King Street. Boyshad a habit of stopping to kick w...
Author: Angela Carter
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781853814402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese two collections of little-known stories from Europe, the Arctic, the USA, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, contain tales of alluring women, ailing warriors, enchantresses and seekers of revenge. The heroines are always centre stage, as large as life, or even larger.
Author: Arnold Bennett
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 578
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