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Author : Marian Ury
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520038646
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tales of Times Now Past written by Marian Ury and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Perrault
Publisher : Top Five Books LLC
ISBN 13 : 1938938488
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tales of Times Past: The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault written by Charles Perrault and published by Top Five Books LLC. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fairy tales of Charles Perrault—10 timeless stories published from 1693 to 1697—have endured in the public imagination, becoming archetypes that define the genre. Told with style, sophistication, and wry humor, Perrault’s tales inspired writers and folklorists throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries and were the basis for numerous popular adaptations, including the animated films of Walt Disney. Featuring all 10 of Perrault’s fairy tales—including “Little Red Riding-Hood,” “Cinderella,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Puss in Boots,” “Little Thumbling,” and “Bluebeard”—this Top Five Classics compilation also presents all 41 engraved illustrations by Gustave Doré from his famed 1862 edition, with a new translation of Perrault’s original French texts (including the morals in verse), an informative introduction, and a detailed author biography. Meant for children, but enjoyed by readers of all ages, this illustrated edition captures the wonder, charm, humor, and fright of the original tales, in a modern translation that reflects the simple yet elegant language of Charles Perrault.
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Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462917216
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Japanese Tales from Times Past written by and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of translated tales is from the most famous work in all of Japanese classical literature--the Konjaku Monogatari Shu. This collection of traditional Japanese folklore is akin to the Canterbury Tales of Chaucer or Dante's Inferno--powerfully entertaining tales that reveal striking aspects of the cultural psychology, fantasy, and creativity of medieval Japan--tales that still resonate with modern Japanese readers today. The ninety stories in this book are filled with keen psychological insights, wry sarcasm, and scarcely veiled criticisms of the clergy, nobles, and peasants alike--suggesting that there are, among all classes and peoples, similar failings of pride, vanity, superstition and greed--as well as aspirations toward higher moral goals. This is the largest collection in English of the Konjaku Monogatari Shu tales ever published in one volume. It presents the low life and the high life, the humble and the devout, the profane flirting, farting and fornicating of everyday men and women, as well as their yearning for the wisdom, transcendence and compassion that are all part and parcel of our shared humanity. Stories Include: The Grave of Chopsticks Robbers Come to a Temple and Steal Its Bell The Woman Fish Peddler at the Guardhouse Fish are Turned into the Lotus Sutra A Dragon is Caught by a Tengu Goblin The Monk Tojo Predicts the Fall of Shujaku Gate Wasps Attack a Spider in Revenge
Author : Josh Alan Friedman
Publisher : Feral House
ISBN 13 : 1936239698
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tales of Times Square written by Josh Alan Friedman and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2012-09-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Friedman has drawn a vivid picture of the Times Square area and its denizens. He writes about the porn palaces with live sex shows, and the men and women who perform in them, prostitutes and their pimps, the runaways who will likely be the next decade's prostitutes, the clergymen who fight the smut merchants and the cops who feel impotent in the face of the judiciary.”—Publishers Weekly This classic account of the ultra-sleazy, pre-Disneyfied era of Times Square is now the subject of a documentary film of the same name to be theatrically released this year. With this edition, Tales of Times Square returns to print with seven new chapters.
Author : Robert Lacey
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759511616
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book Great Tales from English History written by Robert Lacey and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England -- from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughman. The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England's past, highlighting the spread of the English language, the rejection of both a religion and a traditional view of kingly authority, and an unstoppable movement toward intellectual and political freedom from 1387 to 1689. Opening with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and culminating in William and Mary's "Glorious Revolution," Lacey revisits some of the truly classic stories of English history: the Battle of Agincourt, where Henry V's skilled archers defeated a French army three times as large; the tragic tale of the two young princes locked in the Tower of London (and almost certainly murdered) by their usurping uncle, Richard III; Henry VIII's schismatic divorce, not just from his wife but from the authority of the Catholic Church; "Bloody Mary" and the burning of religious dissidents; Sir Francis Drake's dramatic, if questionable, part in the defeat of the Spanish Armada; and the terrible and transformative Great Fire of London, to name but a few. Here Anglophiles will find their favorite English kings and queens, villains and victims, authors and architects - from Richard II to Anne Boleyn, the Virgin Queen to Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Pepys to Christopher Wren, and many more. Continuing the "eminently readable, highly enjoyable" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) history he began in volume I of Great Tales from English History, Robert Lacey has drawn on the most up-to-date research to present a taut and riveting narrative, breathing life into the most pivotal characters and exciting landmarks in England's history.
Author : Lawton Bryan Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Old Time Tales written by Lawton Bryan Evans and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : The New York Times
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312312336
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tales from the Times written by The New York Times and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating, the inspiring, the hilarious. . . Human interest tales from The New York Time
Author : Ruth Ozeki
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101606258
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Tale for the Time Being written by Ruth Ozeki and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness Finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award “A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao’s only solace—and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao’s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. Full of Ozeki’s signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.
Author : Gianni Rodari
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1592703968
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book Telling Stories Wrong written by Gianni Rodari and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2022 ★ Everyone knows how "Little Red Riding Hood" goes. But Grandpa keeps getting the story all wrong, with hilarious results! "Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Little Yellow Riding Hood—" "Not yellow! It's Red Riding Hood!" So begins the story of a grandpa playfully recounting the well-known fairytale—or his version, at least—to his granddaughter. Try as she might to get him back on track, Grandpa keeps on adding things to the mix, both outlandish and mundane! The end result is an unpredictable tale that comes alive as it's being told, born out of imaginative play and familial affection. This spirited picture book will surprise and delight from start to finish, while reminding readers that storytelling is not only a creative act of improvisation and interaction, but also a powerful pathway for connection and love. Telling Stories Wrong was written by Gianni Rodari, widely regarded as the father of modern Italian children's literature. It exemplifies his great respect for the intelligence of children and the kind of work he did as an educator, developing numerous games and exercises for children to engage and think beyond the status quo, imagining what happens after the end of a familiar story, or what possibilities open up when a new ingredient is introduced. This book is illustrated with great affection by the illustrious artist Beatrice Alemagna (Child of Glass), who counts Gianni Rodari as one of her "spiritual fathers."
Author : Charles Perrault
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault written by Charles Perrault and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault" is a timeless collection of classic fairy tales written by Charles Perrault, a French author who lived in the 17th century. This compilation includes some of the most beloved and enduring stories that have enchanted generations of readers worldwide. The book features iconic fairy tales such as "Cinderella," "Little Red Riding Hood," "Sleeping Beauty," "Bluebeard," "Puss in Boots," and "Beauty and the Beast." Each story is a magical journey into a world of fantasy, where talking animals, wicked witches, handsome princes, and courageous heroines populate the pages. In "Cinderella," readers follow the journey of a kind-hearted girl who overcomes adversity with the help of her fairy godmother to attend the royal ball and capture the heart of a prince. "Little Red Riding Hood" tells the cautionary tale of a young girl who encounters a cunning wolf on her way to her grandmother's house. The enchanting "Sleeping Beauty" revolves around a princess who falls into a deep slumber and can only be awakened by true love's kiss. "Bluebeard" delves into a dark and suspenseful story of a curious wife who uncovers the sinister secrets of her husband's past. "Puss in Boots" features the clever cat who helps his poor master rise to wealth and nobility through a series of cunning tricks. And in "Beauty and the Beast," readers witness a touching love story that transcends appearances and teaches the value of inner beauty. Charles Perrault's fairy tales are not only captivating and imaginative but also carry moral lessons and universal themes that resonate with readers of all ages. They have become an integral part of the literary canon, inspiring countless adaptations, retellings, and interpretations in various forms of media. "The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault" continues to be cherished by readers for its timeless appeal and enduring charm, making it a must-read for anyone seeking to experience the enchantment and magic of classic fairy tales."
